Fredrik Lundh wrote: > well, the empty string is a valid substring of all possible strings > (there are no "null" strings in Python). you get the same behaviour > from slicing, the "in" operator, "replace" (this was discussed on the > list last week), "count", etc.
Although Tim pointed out that replace() only regards n+1 empty strings as existing in a string of lenth n. So for consistency, find() should only find them in those places, too. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
