[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Guido van Rossum
At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now I'm getting cold feet -- is this really a good idea? (It's been listed in PEP 3100 for a long time, but I haven't thought about it much, really.) What do peo

Re: [Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Tim Peters
[Guido van Rossum] > At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out > find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now > I'm getting cold feet -- is this really a good idea? (It's been listed > in PEP 3100 for a long time, but I haven't thought about it

Re: [Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Josiah Carlson
"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out > find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now > I'm getting cold feet -- is this really a good idea? (It's been listed > in PEP 3100 for a long time, but

Re: [Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Jack Diederich
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:32:39PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out > find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now > I'm getting cold feet -- is this really a good idea? (It's been listed > in PEP 3100 f

Re: [Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Georg Brandl
Tim Peters wrote: > [Guido van Rossum] >> At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out >> find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now >> I'm getting cold feet -- is this really a good idea? (It's been listed >> in PEP 3100 for a long time, but I h

Re: [Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Brian Holmes
On 8/22/06, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:32:39PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:> At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out> find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now > I'm getting cold feet -- is this r

Re: [Python-3000] Droping find/rfind?

2006-08-22 Thread Brian Holmes
On 8/22/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> At today's sprint, one of the volunteers completed a patch to rip out> find() and rfind(), replacing all calls with index()/rindex(). But now > I'm getting cold feet -- is this really a good idea? (