RE Module Question.

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:25:11 GMT, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>In article <mailman.1005039367.28367.python-list at python.org>, Corrado Gioannini wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:49:38AM +0000, Paul Winkler wrote:
>> [snip] 
>>> You can do it like so:
>>> 
>>> test = "this is spam"
>>> if test.find("spam"): print "found it"
>>  
>> this would fail if the sub-string to be found is at the beginning of the
>> string (find returning 0).
>
>It also fails if the string is not present, since find()
>returns a -1 in that case.  

Whoops.
Very sorry for the incorrect advice. Should've checked before posting...

--PW