I've had this trouble before, how do I find the details of how "in" works in the documentation. E.g. the details of:-if string in bigstring:
It's tough to find those generic keywords. It happens to be documented a bit here:
http://docs.python.org/library/operator.html#operator.contains http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html#id12 HTH, -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list