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 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 > > >>> t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e') > >>> a = 'a' > >>> a in t > True > >>> y = 'y' > >>> y in t > False > > >>> t = ('test', 'black', 'white') > >>> a = 'a' > >>> [i for i in t if a in i] > ['black'] > >>> > > HTH :)
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