Re: [Python-ideas] Default return values to int and float

Ron Adam wrote:

I really don't like the '-1' for a not found case. They just get in the way.

If len(s) was the not found case, you get a value that can be used in a slice without first checking the index, or catching an exception.

So every time we want to know if s.find() failed, we have to compare to len(s)?

No thanks.

~Ethan~