On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:09:50PM -0400, Miguel Oliveira wrote:
> I want to make an if statement in which I would like to find a
> certain word in a sentence; here is what i have so far:
>
> x = raw_input("how are you?")
>
> if x == "fine":
> print "Good."
>
> But that, obviously, will only respond "good" when one writes
> "fine". I was looking for a way for the program to respond "good"
> to any sentence that would contain the word "fine" in it.
Since strings are sequences, too, you can use the membership
operator ('in'):
>>> input = "spam; spam, eggs and spam; spam, sausage and spam..."
>>> if "spam" in input:
>>> sing()
http://docs.python.org/ref/sequence-types.html
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