Re: [Array] Finding index that contains part of a string?

[Tim Chase]

Out of curiosity, is there a better way in Python to iterate through
an array, and return the index of each item that contains the bit
somewhere in its value, ie. index() doesn't work because it only
returns if the value only contains the item I'm looking for.
This works:
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next = re.compile(">&#9658<")
i = 0
for item in items:
        m = next.search(item)
        if m:
                print "Found Next in item %s" % i
        i = i + 1

It looks like you're hunting for a fixed string, so I'd use

  ">&#9658<" in item

instead of bothering with a regexp.

You could do something like

  indicies = [i for (i, item)
    in enumerate(items)
    if ">&#9658<" in item
#    if next.search(item)
    ]

Or, if you just want those those indicies to find the 
corresponding items, you can skip the enumerate()

  indicies = [item for item in items
    if ">&#9658<" in item
#    if next.search(item)
    ]

You can use the "enumerate()" wrapper to get the indicies in your 
loop if you really have to process them as such

  for i, item in enumerate(items):
#    if next.search(item)
    if ">&#9658<" in item:
      print "Found next item at", i

which is a bit more pythonic than "i = 0 ... i += 1"

-tkc



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