Re: rfind bug ?

Stef Mientki wrote:
On 21-04-2010 10:56, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Stef Mientki <stef.mientki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With the following code, I would expect a result of 5 !!

a= 'word1 word2 word3'
a.rfind(' ',7)
11

Is this a bug ?
No. Don't you think someone would have found such an obvious bug by now?
if it's not a bug,
then the start index has no meaning ...
... and some would call that a bug.

cheers,
Stef
a.rfind(' ', 12)
Out[12]: -1

looks like the start index has a meaning ...

JM

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