Syntax of 'in' : searching a list for a string

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Garry Knight wrote:
> If supportList is a list of strings, then this should work in Python 2.3 and
> above:
> 
> for i in supportList:
>   if 'Remove' in i:
>     print 'Found it in', i

But you only need that if you're looking for a string that
contains 'Remove' rather than one that exactly equals
'Remove'.

If you're looking for an exact match, the original version
should work in any version of Python.

It looks more like the OP's problem was that supportList
was actually a string rather than a list of strings.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg