[Python-ideas] Deprecate str.find

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 08:26 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> 
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Mike Graham wrote:
> 
> > str.find (and bytes.find) is worse than the alternatives in every
> > way.
> > It should be explicitly deprecated in favour of str.__contains__ and
> > str.index.
> > 
> 
> 
> Unless an API is flat out broken, deprecation is almost always a bad
> idea.
> This API has been around for a very long time, so deprecating it will
> break lots of people's code for almost zero benefit:
> 
> 
> http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%5C.find%5C(%20lang:%
> 5Epython$&type=cs
> 

Although a quick lock over the found snippets tells,
that apparently many uses of find are indeed "ugly" code
that could be improved by use of index or __contains__

Since a DeprecationWarning seems rather intrusive,
what would be a less intrusive way to cause code-enhancement in such
places?


-- Ronny

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> Raymond
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