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Tue May 30 07:48:50 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-May/065414.html

Armin Rigo wrote:

> I know this.  These corner cases are debatable and different answers
> could be seen as correct, as I think is the case for find().  My point
> was different: I was worrying that the recent change in str.find() would
> needlessly send existing and working programs into infinite loops, which
> can be a particularly bad kind of failure for some applications.

since "abc".find("", 0) == 0, I would have thought that a program that 
searched for an empty string in a loop wouldn't get anywhere at all.

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