list? I've asked him to stop but
he rather abusively replied saying that he wasn't doing anything wrong.
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From: Stephen Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Checking a string against multiple matches
To
On Dec 2, 10:09 pm, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 3:01 am, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The only time I'd expect it to do partial matches is if you were doing
> > string.index(string), rather than list.index(string):
> It would if the OP was iterating over the list and chec
On Dec 2, 3:01 am, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 5:31 am, Aaron Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I was using .index on the
> > list, but it would return True for strings that contained the search
> > string rather than match it exactly, leading to false positives in my
> > cod
On Dec 2, 5:31 am, Aaron Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was using .index on the
> list, but it would return True for strings that contained the search
> string rather than match it exactly, leading to false positives in my
> code.
Are you sure? That doesn't seem like standard behaviour.
>>>
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Aaron Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Damn you, Python, and your loose documentation! It never occurred to
> me to actually TRY my pseudocode, since I couldn't find anything on
> that type of statement. Anyway, feel free to ignore me from now on.
I'm not sure whe
Damn you, Python, and your loose documentation! It never occurred to
me to actually TRY my pseudocode, since I couldn't find anything on
that type of statement. Anyway, feel free to ignore me from now on.
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Aaron Scott wrote:
> I've been trying to read up on this, but I'm not sure what the
> simplest way to do it is.
>
> I have a list of string. I'd like to check to see if any of the
> strings in that list matches another string.
>
> Pseudocode:
>
> if "two" in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]:
>
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Aaron Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pseudocode:
>
> if "two" in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]:
> return True
That works, just like you wrote it:
>>> "two" in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]
True
>>> "two" in ["one", "twofer", "three", "four"]
False
If
I've been trying to read up on this, but I'm not sure what the
simplest way to do it is.
I have a list of string. I'd like to check to see if any of the
strings in that list matches another string.
Pseudocode:
if "two" in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]:
return True
Is there any built-in i
