string contains and special characters

[Agon Hajdari]

On 10/09/2012 04:02 PM, loial wrote:
> I am trying to match a string that containing the "<" and ">" characters, using the string contains function, but it never seems to find the lines containing the string
> 
> e.g if mystring.contains("<TAG>") :
> 
> Do I need to escape the characters...and if so how?
> 
if '<TAG>' in yourstring:
	# your code

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Agon Hajdari