Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want an exception from your code when 'w' isn't in the string > you should consider using index() rather than find.
The idea is you expect w to be in the string. If w isn't in the string, your code has a bug, and programs with bugs should fail as early as possible so you can locate the bugs quickly and easily. That is why, for example, x = 'buggy'[None] raises an exception instead of doing something stupid like returning 'g'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
