Searching in str backwards

[Emile van Sebille]

On 10/13/2010 4:28 PM Pratik Khemka said...
> line = "my/cat/dog/baby"

Introspection is your friend....

 >>> line = "my/cat/dog/baby"
 >>> dir(line)
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__doc__', 
'__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem_
_', '__getnewargs__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', 
'__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__ne__
', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rmod__', 
'__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclass
hook__', '_formatter_field_name_split', '_formatter_parser', 
'capitalize', 'center', 'count', 'decode', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expan
dtabs', 'find', 'format', 'index', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdigit', 
'islower', 'isspace', 'istitle', 'isupper', 'join', 'ljust', 'lo
wer', 'lstrip', 'partition', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 
'rpartition', 'rsplit', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitlines', 'starts
with', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title', 'translate', 'upper', 'zfill']
 >>> help(line.rfind)
Help on built-in function rfind:

rfind(...)
     S.rfind(sub [,start [,end]]) -> int

     Return the highest index in S where substring sub is found,
     such that sub is contained within s[start:end].  Optional
     arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.

     Return -1 on failure.

 >>>


Emile