[Python-ideas] Deprecate str.find

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Mike Graham wrote:

> str.find (and bytes.find) is worse than the alternatives in every way.
> It should be explicitly deprecated in favour of str.__contains__ and
> str.index.

Unless an API is flat out broken, deprecation is almost always a bad idea.
This API has been around for a very long time, so deprecating it will
break lots of people's code for almost zero benefit:

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%5C.find%5C(%20lang:%5Epython$&type=cs


Raymond
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