Search String for Word

[digitalorganics at gmail.com]

I thought I'd seen that somewhere! Thanks Tim. I was previously using
re.search(substring, targetstring).

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
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html
> 
> -tkc