string find mystery

[John Yeung]

On Sep 3, 1:10 am, Helvin <helvin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>         if file_str.find('Geometry'):
>         #if file_str.endswith('Data_Input_Geometry.txt'):
>             print 'I found geometry'
> The amazing thing is when file_str  = 'C:\Qt\SimLCM\Default
> \Data_Input_Material.txt',
> the first if statement if fulfilled, that seemingly says that in this
> file_str, python actually finds the word 'Geometry'.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?

Yep.  You should read the documentation on the find method.  It
returns -1 when the substring is not found.  Also, if 'Geometry' had
been found at the beginning, it would have returned 0.

John