Re: shouldn't 'string'.find('ugh') return 0, not -1 ?
2007/10/31, jelle <jelleferinga@xxxxxxxxx>:
the subject pretty much says it all.
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
IMHO "0" would mean the substring starts at index 0 of the iterable.
If that changes it should return "None" in python instead of a int anyway, no?
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