Op 2005-08-27, Terry Reedy schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > "Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> The try/except pattern is a pretty basic part of Python's design. One >>> could say the same about clutter for *every* function or method that >>> raises >>> an exception on invalid input. Should more or even all be duplicated? >>> Why >>> just this one? >> >> Someone must have thought str.find was worth having, or else it >> wouldn't be in the library. > > Well, Guido no longer thinks it worth having and emphatically agreed that > it should be added to one of the 'To be removed' sections of PEP 3000.
I think a properly implented find is better than an index. If we only have index, Then asking for permission is no longer a possibility. If we have a find that returns None, we can either ask permission before we index or be forgiven by the exception that is raised. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
