[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)

[Neal Norwitz]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> I wrote:
> > I personally see no way to defend ('' in 'x') returning false; it's so
> > clearly a substring that any definition of substring-ness that
> > excludes this seems mathematically wrong, despite your good
> > intentions.
> 
> However, the backwards compatibility argument makes sense.  It used to
> raise an exception and it would probably break code if it stopped
> doing so; longer strings are much less likely to be passed by accident
> so the need for the exception there is less strong.  I'm of two minds
> on this now...

Here's a patch:  http://python.org/sf/591250

In testing this patch, I ran across this:

	>>> 's' in 's'
	True
	>>> 's' in 's' == True
	False
	>>> 's' in 's' is True
	False
	>>> id('s' in 's')
	135246792
	>>> id(True)
	135246792

What's up with that?  Am I missing something?  
Note: this occurs before the patch too.

Neal