[Python-Dev] Re: Generalizing "in" to pairs of sequences

[Eric S. Raymond]

Barry A. Warsaw <barry@zope.com>:
>     AC> substringp would probably be the wrong name for it, though.
> 
> Hmm, "hassubstring()"?

How about "contains"?  E.g.

if a.contains(b):
	# do stuff
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