[Python-ideas] Default return values to int and float

[Ron Adam]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 19:08 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I'm out of ideas here. But of all these, str.find is probably still
> > the worst -- I've flagged bugs caused by it too many times to count.
> 
> Could a with-statement be used here somehow?
> 
>      with finding(x, s) as i:
>          ...

Or an iterator.

     for i in finding(x, s):
          ...