On Jul 18, 2:11 am, Eloff <dan.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > Almost every time I've had to do parsing of text over the last 5 years > I've needed this function: [snip] > It finds the first matching substring in the target string, if there > is more than one match, it returns the position of the match that > occurs at the lowest index in the string.
Alternatives: (1) re.search(r"sub0|sub1|...", ...) (2) google "Aho Corasick Python" (one result should be a thread in this newsgroup within the last week) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
