[Array] Finding index that contains part of a string?

[Tim Chase]

> Out of curiosity, is there a better way in Python to iterate through
> an array, and return the index of each item that contains the bit
> somewhere in its value, ie. index() doesn't work because it only
> returns if the value only contains the item I'm looking for.
> 
> This works:
> ========
> next = re.compile(">&#9658<")
> i = 0
> for item in items:
> 	m = next.search(item)
> 	if m:
> 		print "Found Next in item %s" % i
> 	i = i + 1

It looks like you're hunting for a fixed string, so I'd use

   ">&#9658<" in item

instead of bothering with a regexp.

You could do something like

   indicies = [i for (i, item)
     in enumerate(items)
     if ">&#9658<" in item
#    if next.search(item)
     ]

Or, if you just want those those indicies to find the 
corresponding items, you can skip the enumerate()

   indicies = [item for item in items
     if ">&#9658<" in item
#    if next.search(item)
     ]

You can use the "enumerate()" wrapper to get the indicies in your 
loop if you really have to process them as such

   for i, item in enumerate(items):
#    if next.search(item)
     if ">&#9658<" in item:
       print "Found next item at", i

which is a bit more pythonic than "i = 0 ... i += 1"

-tkc