Re: shouldn't 'string'.find('ugh') return 0, not -1 ?

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:31:06 +0000, jelle wrote:

if I check a string for for a substring, and this substring isn't found,
should't the .find method return 0 rather than -1?
this breaks the

if check.find('something'):
do(somethingElse)

idiom, which is a bit of a pity I think.

And what should ``'string'.find('str')`` return? How do you distinguish
the not found at all case from the found at the very beginning case!?

The simple test you want can be written this way:

if 'something' in check:
do(something_else)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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