"Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Can str.find be listed in PEP 3000 (under builtins) for removal? > > FWIW, here is a sample code transformation (extracted from zipfile.py). > Judge for yourself whether the index version is better:
I am sure that we both could write similar code that would be smoother if the math module also had a 'powhalf' function that was the same as sqrt except for returning -1 instead of raising an error on negative or non-numerical input. I'll continue in response to Josiah... Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
