On 4/5/2012 11:10 AM Jon Clements said...
On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:34:20 UTC+1, Miki Tebeka wrote:
Greetings,
I'm going to give a "Python Gotcha's" talk at work.
If you have an interesting/common "Gotcha" (warts/dark corners ...) please
share.
(Note that I want over http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts already).
Thanks,
--
Miki
One I've had to debug...
text = 'abcdef'
if text.find('abc'):
print 'found it!'
# Nothing prints as bool(0) is False
if text.find('bob'):
print 'found it!'
found it!
Someone new who hasn't read the docs might try this, but then I guess it's not
really a gotcha if they haven't bothered doing that.
Kind of begs for a contains method that returns the appropriate boolean:
if text.contains('bob')
Emile
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
