String compare question

[Robert Dailey]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Gary Herron <gherron at islandtraining.com>
wrote:
>
> You expect this is creating a tuple (or so I see from your "in" test in
> the following code), but in fact the parenthesis do *not* make a tuple.
> If you look at ignored_dirs, you'll find it's just a string.  It's the
> presence of commas that signam a tuple.  You need
>
> ignored_dirs = (
>    r".\boost\include",  # It's that comma that makes this a tuple.
>     )
>

Thanks for reminding me of this. I always forget that!

Now that it is correctly doing *only* whole string matches, what if I want
to make it do a substring compare to each string in my ignored_dirs tuple?
Thanks.
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