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

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Are you also proposing to allow
> > 
> >     if [2, 3] in [1, 2, 3, 4]
> > 
> > which is effectively the meaning you seem to be proposing for
> > strings?
> 
> No, since it's not a common thing to need.

Of course, there's another reason why that can't be done even if it
*was* a common need: [2, 3] could be a list item, e.g. [1, [2, 3], 4].
This kind of thing can't happen for strings.

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