[Python-ideas] string codes & substring equality

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On 12/01/2013 05:33 AM, Andrew Barnert wrote:
> But I may have been assuming too much. A lot of other "multi-paradigm" languages went through a phase like that and have a historical legacy, like C++'s ridiculous string class and JavaScript's excess of Array methods. But Python does seen to have ended up with a lot fewer quirky choices than those languages. Still, I think the various index/find/count/etc. methods didn't all need to be methods.

Something must be good to be criticisable... Python is clean, so its quircks 
so-to-say jump at one's eyes. When facing C++, or similar mess, I don't know 
where to start the critics ;-)

Denis