Equivalent string.find method for a list of strings

[jeremit0]

harold fellermann wrote:
> file.readlines() returns a list of lines. You can either call find on each
> element in this list, like:
> 
> for line in myfile.readlines() :
>     if line.find('my particular string') :
>         do_something()
> 
I had thought that may be the only way to do it, I was hoping for 
something simpler as I wrote earlier.
Thanks for your help,
Jeremy