Substring Detection? Pythonically?

[insyte at petra.squad51.net]

In article <20001004.123529.97857 at Jeremy.cerebralmaelstrom.com>, Stephen
Hansen wrote:

>Okay, say I have three different strings:
>	#1: they
>	#2: that
>	#3: tommy
>
>And a user gives me a string -- 'the', I want it to match to 'they'. Then
>say they give me a string, 'to', I want it to match to 'tommy'. A string
>of 'th' or 't' is ambiguious, and i want a list returned, ['they','that']
>and ['they','that','tommy'] respectively.

I'm just flailing around here, but it doesn't seem too tough to me.  How
'bout something like this:

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import re

bloop = 'to'

blah = ['they', 'that', 'tommy']
blecch = []

for blargh in blah:
	if re.match(bloop, blargh):
		blecch.append(blargh)

print blecch
----------

Sound viable?

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