[Tutor] Re: Searching string value in db

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:32:45PM -0500, Doug.Shawhan@gecits.ge.com wrote:
| I have a database in the following format:
|=20
| 'key' : 'FOO, data, data' <--Regular old string with commas...
|=20
| however:=20
|=20
| >>> for each in db.keys():
| 	if string.find(db[each], 'FOO') !=3D -1:
| 		print each, db[each]
|=20
| returns empty.=20

I suspect that the object 'db' doesn't contain what you think it does.

Try
    print repr(db)
and see if any of the values contain the string "FOO".

Your usage of string.find() is correct.

-D

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