It is time to share some insights. In fact, there is no necessity to **manually specify the index** of the symbol to find it in the string; it seems we have an intuition for this, as we recognize Python's user-friendly approach and attentiveness to its users.

Hence, the `find()` function was implemented.

> Note
>
> It will be beneficial to understand that this method is useful when we seek to determine the index of a particular symbol or word within a text. Additionally, it is important to note that this method returns the index of the first occurrence of the substring. In cases where the **substring is not found**, it returns a value of '-1'.

Take a look at the example; it will help you get the syntax:

string = "Channel efforts to success!"
print(string.find('n'))

import unittest
import sys
from io import StringIO


class TestUserCode(unittest.TestCase):
    def _test_variable_equals_string(self, var_name, expected):
        import user_code
        if not hasattr(user_code, var_name):
            return (False, f"Expected '{var_name}' variable to be defined.")
        var = getattr(user_code, var_name)
        if var != expected:
            return (False, f"Expected '{var_name}' to equal '{expected}', but got '{var}'.")
        return (True, f'The variable {var_name} equals "{expected}"')

    def test_p(self):
        passed, result_text = self._test_variable_equals_string(
            'p', 15)
        self._testMethodName = result_text
        self.assertTrue(passed, result_text)

    def test_y(self):
        passed, result_text = self._test_variable_equals_string(
            'y', 5)
        self._testMethodName = result_text
        self.assertTrue(passed, result_text)

    def test_r(self):
        passed, result_text = self._test_variable_equals_string(
            'r', 2)
        self._testMethodName = result_text
        self.assertTrue(passed, result_text)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()


test_main.py

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Get the Index of the Symbol

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Get the Index of the Symbol

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