* Terry Reedy (Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:28:36 -0400) > "Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:09:36 +1000, 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. > | > | What about -1? C programmers do this all the time. :-) > > Because they do not have exceptions.
They have plenty of - but they can't catch them :) Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
