newbie: find position of item in a list

[Erik Max Francis]

Alexander Eisenhuth wrote:

> l.find('b') doesn't exist ...

Indeed, the .find method is only present in strings, not lists.  The
distinction between .find and .index is subtle but important:  L.index
looks for elements, but S.find looks for substrings.

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