On Jul 15, 2011, at 6:57 AM, Mike Graham wrote: > str.find (and bytes.find) is worse than the alternatives in every way. > It should be explicitly deprecated in favour of str.__contains__ and > str.index. Unless an API is flat out broken, deprecation is almost always a bad idea. This API has been around for a very long time, so deprecating it will break lots of people's code for almost zero benefit: http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%5C.find%5C(%20lang:%5Epython$&type=cs Raymond -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20110716/299b8cef/attachment.html>