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:
> I agree in this sense: the use of any int as an error return is an 
> unPythonic *nix-Cism, which I believe was copied therefrom.  Str.find is 
> redundant with the Pythonic exception-raising str.index and I think it 
> should be removed in Py3.

I like having it available so you don't have to clutter your code with
try/except if the substring isn't there.  But it should not return a
valid integer index.