Re: [Maya-Python] Python Find Error?

2010-06-13 Thread Matt Estela
its giving you the index of the character/substring, not a true/false. Python, like most languages, starts arrays at 0, so in this case: > 'dog-cat'.find( 'at') > result is 5 Its saying it found your string at array index 5, (so starting from 0, the 6th character) > Also, I getting 0 when the c

[Maya-Python] Python Find Error?

2010-06-13 Thread Carlo
I used the find attribute and got a='dog' a.find( 'og') result is 1 a.find('k') result is -1 Which makes sense -1 means doesn't contain the character 1 means it does, but when I use it the find attribute for numbers and anything with a dash in it, I get a value greater than 1. b= 'dog-cat' b.fi