[Python-Dev] Let's stop eating exceptions in dict lookup

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/29/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
> > well, the empty string is a valid substring of all possible strings
> > (there are no "null" strings in Python).  you get the same behaviour
> > from slicing, the "in" operator, "replace" (this was discussed on the
> > list last week), "count", etc.
>
> Although Tim pointed out that replace() only regards
> n+1 empty strings as existing in a string of lenth
> n. So for consistency, find() should only find them
> in those places, too.

And "abc".count("") should return 4.

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