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

[Ethan Furman]

Ron Adam wrote:
> I really don't like the '-1' for a not found case. They just get in the
> way.
> 
> If len(s) was the not found case, you get a value that can be used in a
> slice without first checking the index, or catching an exception.

So every time we want to know if s.find() failed, we have to compare to 
len(s)?


No thanks.

~Ethan~