[Tutor] finding digit in string

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/10/12 17:43, Benjamin Fishbein wrote:
> I figured out a solution for the question I asked on here.
> To find the next digit (0-9) in a string, I use:
> text.find("0" or "1" or "2", etc.......)

Are you sure that worked? It doesn't for me on Python 2.7...

 >>> s
'a string with 7 words in it'
 >>> s.find('4' or '5' or '7')
-1
 >>> s.find('7')
14


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