In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> What's with the index() function of lists throwing an exception on not >> found? > > It's letting you know that the item isn't in the list. There's no > sensible return value from an "index" function in that condition.
How about returning None? That's what's already done by the dict.get method by default. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
