Bug in string.find; was: Re: Proposed PEP: New style indexing,was Re: Bug in slice type

[Paul Rubin]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> The try/except pattern is a pretty basic part of Python's design.  One 
> could say the same about clutter for *every* function or method that raises 
> an exception on invalid input.  Should more or even all be duplicated?  Why 
> just this one?

Someone must have thought str.find was worth having, or else it
wouldn't be in the library.