I thought I'd seen that somewhere! Thanks Tim. I was previously using re.search(substring, targetstring).
Tim Chase wrote: > > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a > > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not? > > >>> substring = 'foo' > >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar' > >>> substring in targetstring > True > >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup' > yup > > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html > > -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
