[Python-ideas] Deprecate str.find

Fri Jul 15 19:30:50 CEST 2011

Mike Graham wrote:
> str.find (and bytes.find) is worse than the alternatives in every way.

I disagree.
> Additionally, the existence of str.find violates the
> there's-one-way-to-do-it principle.

The principle is "One *Obvious* Way To Do It" not *Only* One Way. 
Sometimes which one is 'obvious' is only clear from reading the 
documentation or learning the language in some other way -- but that 
doesn't mean it always the _better_ way.
I, for one, have zero interest in losing good functionality because 
somebody else is misusing a feature.
Exceptions are not /always/ the best way to do something.
~Ethan~