Moving to python-dev.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:28:50AM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> I suppose we could have more debate after the fact,
> but this one seems straight-forward enough:
>
> * discussed on comp.lang.python
> * had an RFE on SF
> * has clear use cases
> * got a +1 from Guido
> * is backwards compatible
> * matches the signature of str.index() and unicode.index()
> * matches the search technique for regular expressions
> * was a relatively simple coding change
> * checked in with thorough tests
While overall I think the idea is worthwhile, I have two concerns:
* the doc wasn't updated
* negative indices are handled differently:
>>> 'abc'.split().index('a', -3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list
>>> 'abc'.index('a', -3)
0
Neal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Warsaw" <barry@python.org>
>
> This seems like a pretty significant change to Python's API (or at least
> one of its more common built-ins). Given that Python 2.3 is in beta,
> I'm wondering how wise it is to add this feature. I'm sure I missed the
> python-dev debate about it <wink>.
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