Steve Holden wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > We are arguing about trivialities here. Let's stop before it gets > interesting :-)
Some of us are looking beyond the trivia of what string.find() should return, at an unfortunate interaction of Python features, brought on by the special-casing of negative indexes. The wart bites novice or imperfect Python programmers in simple cases such as string.find(), or when their subscripts accidentally fall off the low end. It bites programmers who want to fully implement Python slicing, because of the double-and- contradictory- interpretation of -1, as both an exclusive ending bound and the index of the last element. It bites documentation authors who naturally think of the non-negative subscript as *the* index of a sequence item. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
