[Python-ideas] Deprecate str.find

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 10:51:12 CEST 2011


On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> By the way: str.index() raises ValueError, not IndexError, if the substring
> isn't found.  That's one argument against "the index() API is foolproof,
> while the find() API isn't".

Yeah, that bugs me too.

Cheers,
Nick.

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