Using wild character

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:48:31 -0700, Zentrader wrote:

> On Sep 6, 12:47 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:54:55 -0700, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
>> > To do a "*string" wildcard filter use the endswith() function instead
>> > of startswith() and to do a *string* type wildcard filter use
>> > the find() function > -1.
>>
>> Maybe better the ``in`` operator for the '*string*' type.  `str.find()`
>> will go away in the future.
> 
> string.find serves a useful purpose in that it returns the starting
> location of the string found, or -1 if not found, so if you wanted to
> slice "abdecf" on"c", string.find will tell you where that is.

But that position is not needed here and I think::

  result = [name for name in names if 'spam' in name]

reads more natural than::

  result = [name for name in names if name.find('spam') > -1]

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch