Newbie question on Re module

[Andrew McGregor]

Ah nuts, that should be str.index

--On Saturday, January 04, 2003 15:39:18 +0000 Tom Zych 
<tztemp14 at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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