On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:09:50PM -0400, Miguel Oliveira wrote: > But that, obviously, will only respond "good" when one writes "fine". I was > looking for a way for the program to respond "good" to any sentence that would > contain the word "fine" in it.
What you want is a regular-expression match. Are you familiar with regexes? The relevant Python documentation is here (for the module 're'): http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html though I find it's not particularly easy reading. The Friedl book recommended in there is the canonical source about regexes, and it is indeed a great book. You should read some manpages first, though. Just google for 'regular expressions' and you'll find all that you need. In the meantime, what you want is something like if re.search( r'fine', x ): # things one does if the user said 'fine' Alternately, you could just use rfind(): http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html but regexes are a good tool to get to know. They're overused (particularly in Perl), but this is just the sort of task they're good for. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
