"manstey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but I can't find an equivalent code for: > > a='xfsdfyysd asd x' > tup=('x','yy','asd') > if tup in a: > < ...> > > I can only do: > > if 'x' in a or 'yy' in a or 'asd' in a: > <...> > > but then I can't make the if clause dependent on changing value of tup. > > Is there a way around this?
is the "def" statement broken in your Python version ? def findany(text, words): for w in words: if w in text: return True return False if findany(a, tup): ... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list