[Python-Dev] timsort for jython

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Um, you meant "is >= 0".  The find() method doesn't return a bool, it
> > returns the first index where the string is found, and -1 if it is not
> > found.
> 
> Which only goes to prove that the people who've been whining about that
> characteristic of find() were right all along.  ;-)

So what would you like it to return?  True/False, with no possibility
of finding where the substring starts?  That defeats a common use
case.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)