Peter Otten wrote:
> Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
>> On 01/12/2014 12:21 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
>>
>>>>>> test("axbxc", "abc")
>>> True
>>>>>> test("abbxc", "abc")
>>> False
>>>
>>> Is the second result desired?
>>
>> No -- the second should match -- you found a test case I didn't...
>>
>> def test(a,b):
>> for ii in a:
>> if ii not in b: a=a.replace(ii,"")
>> while ii+ii in a: a=a.replace(ii+ii,ii)
>> return b in a
>>
>> Show me another. :)
>
>>>> def test(a,b):
> ... for ii in a:
> ... if ii not in b: a=a.replace(ii,"")
> ... while ii+ii in a: a=a.replace(ii+ii,ii)
> ... return b in a
> ...
>>>> test("abac", "abc")
> False
In the mean time here is my candidate:
def test(a, b):
a = iter(a)
return all(c in a for c in b)
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