[Python-Dev] Let's stop eating exceptions in dict lookup
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 30 02:33:27 CEST 2006
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> well, the empty string is a valid substring of all possible strings
> (there are no "null" strings in Python). you get the same behaviour
> from slicing, the "in" operator, "replace" (this was discussed on the
> list last week), "count", etc.
Although Tim pointed out that replace() only regards
n+1 empty strings as existing in a string of lenth
n. So for consistency, find() should only find them
in those places, too.
--
Greg
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