Search String for Word

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Thank you thank you!

Tim Williams wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, digitalorganics at gmail.com
> <digitalorganics at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
> > similarly easy method?
> >
> > Tim Chase wrote:
> > > > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
> > > > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?
> > >
> > >  >>> substring = 'foo'
> > >  >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
> > >  >>> substring in targetstring
> > > True
> > >  >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'
> > > yup
>
> >>> t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
> >>> a = 'a'
> >>> a in t
> True
> >>> y = 'y'
> >>> y in t
> False
>
> >>> t = ('test', 'black', 'white')
> >>> a = 'a'
> >>> [i for i in t if a in i]
> ['black']
> >>>
> 
> HTH :)