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Author martin.panter
Recipients docs@python, kgashok, martin.panter, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-09-18.09:11:26
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The behaviour for searching for empty strings in Python is inconsistent; see Issue 24243. IMO the behaviour for the (r)find/index methods is sensible, but it is worth making the documentation explicit.

The returned indexes you have given (5, 1, and 0) are valid for slicing.
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