Python String rindex() Method

Description

The method rindex() returns the last index where the substring str is found, or raises an exception if no such index exists, optionally restricting the search to string[beg:end].

Syntax

Following is the syntax for rindex() method

str.rindex(str, beg=0 end=len(string))

Parameters

• str -- This specifies the string to be searched.

• beg -- This is the starting index, by default its 0

• len -- This is ending index, by default its equal to the length of the string.

Return Value

This method returns last index if found otherwise raises an exception if str is not found.

Example

The following example shows the usage of rindex() method.

#!/usr/bin/python

str1 = "this is string example....wow!!!";
str2 = "is";

print str1.rindex(str2);
print str1.index(str2);

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:

5
2