rfind bug ?

[Peter Otten]

Chris Rebert wrote:

[didn't see the original message]

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Stef Mientki <stef.mientki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> With the following code, I would expect a result of 5 !!
>>
>>>>> a= 'word1 word2 word3'
>>>>> a.rfind(' ',7)
>> 11
>>
>> Is this a bug ?
> 
> No. Don't you think someone would have found such an obvious bug by now?

Indeed.

OP: you may be looking for

>>> a = "a bb ccc"
>>> a[::-1].find(" ")
3

Peter