On Nov 15, 6:20 am, korean_dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > stringa = "hi" > stringb = "hiyoooo" > > I'd like it to return -1 when I do: > > returnVal = stringa.find(stringb); > > Instead, it treats stringa as "hi" and stringb as "hi".
You appear to be gravely mistaken: | >>> stringa = "hi" | >>> stringb = "hiyoooo" | >>> returnVal = stringa.find(stringb); | >>> returnVal | -1 > How do I solve this? You need to tell us why you thought so; then, maybe, we can help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
