string search function

[Larry Bates]

You should take a look at regular expressions (re)
functions.  I think you will find that they are
much more efficient and can handle things your
routines can't handle.

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"gyromagnetic" <gyromagnetic at excite.com> wrote in message
news:4620daca.0407230608.55e54e95 at posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> I have written a function that searches a text string for various
> words. The text is searched using a boolean 'and' or a boolean 'or' of
> the input list of search terms.
>
> Since I need to use this function for many long strings and many
> search words, I would like to use as efficient a method as possible.
>
> Are there improvements that can be made to the code below? Are there
> better alternatives?
> I am currently using Python 2.3.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -g
>
>
> -----
>
> def bsearch(fterms, stext, btype='AND'):
>     if btype == 'AND':         # boolean 'and' search
>         found = True
>         for f in fterms:
>             if f not in stext:
>                 found = False
>                 break
>     else:                       # boolean 'or' search
>         found = False
>         for f in fterms:
>             if f in stext:
>                 found = True
>                 break
>
>     return found
>
>
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     stext = "hello to you all"
>     terms = ['hello', 'goodbye']
>     btype = 'OR'
>
>     if bsearch(terms, stext, btype):
>         print 'found'
>     else:
>         print 'not found'