[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

[Paul Prescod]

Just throwing it out but what about something like:

found, index = text.index("abc")

if found:
   doSomething(index)

If you were confident that the index was in there you would do something
more like this:

something = text[text.index("abc")[1]:]

(although there are clearer ways to do that)

On 8/23/06, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/23/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> > I agree with Tim -- if we have to get rid of one of them, let's get
> > rid of index/rindex and keep find/rfind.  Catching the exception is
> > much less convenient than testing for -1.
>
> Could you post a simple example or two?  I keep imagining things like::
>
>     index = text.index(...)
>     if 0 <= index:
>         ... do something with index ...
>     else:
>         ...
>
> which looks about the same as::
>
>     try:
>         index = text.index(...)
>         ... do something with index ...
>     except ValueError:
>         ...
>
> Is it just that a lot of the else clauses are empty?
>
> STeVe
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