Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
Thank you thank you! Tim Williams wrote: > On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a > > similarly easy method? > > > > Tim Chase wrote: > > > > What's the best way to search a string for a part

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread Tim Williams
On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a > similarly easy method? > > Tim Chase wrote: > > > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a > > > booleen value indicating whe

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a similarly easy method? 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 = '

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
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' > >

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread Tim Chase
> 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.

Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
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? Thanks... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list