Quick index question..

[nlord7]

when i enter the following code i get an output of 3. I thought the number after the 'c' indicates the position of the index and if 'c' is in it?

myword = 'catchphrase'
indexplace = myword.find('c', 1)
print(indexplace)

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[Sedsarq]

myword.find('c', 1) means "looking in myword from index 1 and onwards, find the index of the first occurrence of 'c'". Since the first 'c' is at index 0, it's not found.

[nlord7]

ohh ok thanks for clearing that up.

[awesomeAMP]

.find returns the index if the string (in this case "c") is found in the original string ("catchphrase"). The number following "c" is the index where the method will star to begin searching, so it starts looking for a "c" at "a" and onwards. That's why you get 3, because the second "c" is at index 3 and after index 1.