"str.contains(part)" or alternatives?
Delaney, Timothy
tdelaney at avaya.com
Wed Sep 11 19:37:17 EDT 2002
> From: Stefan Schwarzer [mailto:sschwarzer at sschwarzer.net]
>
> "if part in s" disturbs the pattern "if item in sequence"
> somewhat but that has
> already been weakened by "if key in dict" (that I like, nonetheless).
In fact, this was the deciding factor in Guido changing his position on 'if
s1 in s2'. A string has sequence-like behaviour (e.g. it is iterable,
individual characters can be indexed), but also has its own behaviour (e.g.
substring containment, all elements are single-character strings).
Tim Delaney
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