Bug in string.find; was: Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing,was Re: Bug in slice type

[Stefan Rank]

> [snipped alot from others about indexing, slicing problems,
>  and the inadequacy of -1 as Not Found indicator]

on 31.08.2005 16:16 Ron Adam said the following:
> The problem with negative index's are that positive index's are zero 
> based, but negative index's are 1 based.  Which leads to a non 
> symmetrical situations.

Hear, hear.

This is, for me, the root of the problem.

But changing the whole of Python to the (more natural and consistent) 
one-based indexing style, for indexing from left and right, is...
difficult.