Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
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? Thanks... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread Tim Chase
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

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
I thought I'd seen that somewhere! Thanks Tim. I was previously using re.search(substring, targetstring). 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'

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
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

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread Tim Williams
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

Re: Search String for Word

2006-06-26 Thread digitalorganics
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