Newbie question on Re module

[Tom Zych]

Andrew McGregor wrote:
> if str.index('binaries') == -1:
>   # then str did not contain the word.

Python 2.2 doesn't return -1 when string.index fails; it raises
a ValueError exception. Are there older versions of Python that
return -1?

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