Re: search backward

[Steven Bethard]

Robert wrote:
I need to find the location of a short string in a long string. The
problem however is that i need to search backward.
Does anybody know how to search in reverse direction?
How about str.rfind?
py> s = 'abc:def:abc'
py> s.rfind('abc')
8
Steve
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