[Python-Dev] Let's stop eating exceptions in dict lookup

Tue May 30 02:33:27 CEST 2006

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