[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Perhaps it has to do with the rest of his message ;-):
> 
>>>(which reminds me that speeding up handling of optional arguments
>>>to C functions would be an even better use of this energy)

Until a few moments ago, I didn't know that str.startswith()
had any optional arguments, so I missed the significance of
that.

In any case, I still find it surprising that this would
make enough difference to outweigh a Python-level indexing
and comparison...

--
Greg