[Tutor] find('') returns 0

Don Jennings dfjennings at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 01:51:00 CEST 2012


This behavior seems strange to me:  the find method of a string returns the position zero when you search for an empty string (granted, I can't quite figure out why you'd search for an empty string, either).

>>> 'abc'.find('')
0

Anyone care to share a good explantion for this behavior and possible use cases? Thanks!

Take care,
Don


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