Another Wart! string.find() [ was: namespace issue? ]

[Chris Barker]

Tim Peters wrote:
> > it is a valid index into a string
> 
> Historical note:  at the time these functions were designed, negative
> indices were not allowed:  sequence[negative_int] raised an exception.

I suppose the time machine was not yet functional either...

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