Have to try

[Delaney, Timothy]

From: Rick Hamilton [mailto:rhamilt at pacbell.net]

> OK - I know I am going to get fried here but -
> I am out of options. I'm a programmer (Java,
> VB and C++) and am taking a class on Operating
> systems. The nut teaching this course is asking
> us to do a ton on programming in Python. OK -
> So I am trying to do a (what should be) simple
> thing. I have a string stored in a variable. I
> want to search that string for the occurrence of
> a sub string. I have tried 
>
> Find(s,sub)
> Rfind
> MyString.find(sub)
> 
> Nothing - I have not yet figured out the appropriate
> way to treat a string and am heading for a very weak
> book that we have as a reference. Anyone will to toss
> a fellow programmer a helping had I'm willing to get
> flamed to get this over with.

Python Documentation
http://www.python.org/doc/


and in particular, The Python Tutorial
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html

Tim Delaney