Why does Python show the whole array?

[andrew cooke]

Gilles Ganault wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:11:55 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt
> <eckhardt at satorlaser.com> wrote:
>>find() returns the index where it is found or -1 if it is not found. Both
>> an
>>index>0 or a -1 evaluate to True when used as conditional expression.
>
> Thanks everyone. I shouldn't have assumed that "if test.find(item):"
> was necessarily enough to mean True.
>
> for item in isp:
> 	#GOOD if item in test:
> 	if test.find(item) > 0:

the post you quote has an error.  you probably want > -1 there.  0 is
returned if the two strings match at the start.  the problem is that the
method return isn't consistent with implicit conversion to boolean; python
does convert non-zero to True.

andrew

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