On Mon, Aug 05, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Tim Peters:
>>
>> BTW, list.sort() is stable in CPython iff
>>
>> [].sort.__doc__.find('stable')
>>
>> is true.
>
> Um, you meant "is >= 0". The find() method doesn't return a bool, it
> returns the first index where the string is found, and -1 if it is not
> found.
Which only goes to prove that the people who've been whining about that
characteristic of find() were right all along. ;-)
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