BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Even without the marker, can't you do:
>
> sentence = "the fabric is red"
> colors = ["red", "white", "blue"]
>
> for color in colors:
> if (sentence.find(color) > 0):
> print color, sentence.find(color)
>
That depends on whether you're only looking for whole words:
>>> colors = ['red', 'green', 'blue']
>>> def findIt(sentence):
... for color in colors:
... if sentence.find(color) > 0:
... print color, sentence.find(color)
...
>>> findIt("This is red")
red 8
>>> findIt("Fredrik Lundh")
red 1
>>>
It's easy to see all the cases that this approach will fail for...
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