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

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Fredrik,

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:48:50AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> since "abc".find("", 0) == 0, I would have thought that a program that 
> searched for an empty string in a loop wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Indeed.  And when this bug was found in the program in question, a
natural fix was to add 1 to the start position if the searched string
was empty, which used to ensure that the loop terminates.


A bientot,

Armin