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Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings

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Date 2011-08-11 03:14 +0100
Subject Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:48 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Python uses half-open ranges, which means that the start position is
> inclusive and the end position is exclusive.
>

Or if you prefer: Python identifies positions between characters,
rather than characters. And I agree that it's better than the
alternative - in fact, I wish other systems could work the same way
(eg Bible references). If you think about position 0 being the very
beginning of the string, and position len(s) being the very end, then
you slice the string from position to position and take the characters
between. When you index the string for a particular character, you aim
at a position and take the character after it.

Chris Angelico

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Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings Jim <jianbao.tao@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 18:24 -0700
  Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-11 02:48 +0100
  Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-11 03:14 +0100
  Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-11 12:56 +1000
    Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-10 20:49 -0700
      Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings Jim <jianbao.tao@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 21:29 -0700
      Re: Bizarre behavior of the 'find' method of strings Jim <jianbao.tao@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 21:29 -0700

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