Syntax of 'in' : searching a list for a string

[MarieR]

Hi,

Sorry for my newbie question:

I want to check whether the string 'Remove' is present in a list 'supportList',
but if I do

if ('Remove') in supportList:

or

if 'Remove' in supportList:

I get the error message

'in ' requires character as left operand.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Marie

[Bjoern Paschen]

MarieR wrote:

I want to check whether the string 'Remove' is present in a list
'supportList', but if I do
if ('Remove') in supportList:
or
if 'Remove' in supportList:
I get the error message
'in ' requires character as left operand.

for i in supportList:
if i == 'Remove':
doSomething()

I am sure there is a shorter way, but this will work.

Bjoern

[Erik Max Francis]

MarieR wrote:

I want to check whether the string 'Remove' is present in a list
'supportList',
but if I do

if ('Remove') in supportList:

or

if 'Remove' in supportList:

I get the error message

'in ' requires character as left operand.

It likely means that supportList is not what you think it is.

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[Dang Griffith]

On 22 Mar 2004 02:02:51 -0800, ro******@esrf.fr (MarieR) wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for my newbie question:

I want to check whether the string 'Remove' is present in a list 'supportList',
but if I do

if ('Remove') in supportList:

or

if 'Remove' in supportList:

I get the error message

'in ' requires character as left operand.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Marie

What perfect timing--the question right before yours asked which
version of Python added support for that syntax. You need to be using
2.3 or newer to use the 'in' operator to search for a string in a
string.
--dang

[Garry Knight]

In message <6d**************************@posting.google.com >, MarieR wrote:

I want to check whether the string 'Remove' is present in a list
'supportList', but if I do

if ('Remove') in supportList:

or

if 'Remove' in supportList:

I get the error message

'in ' requires character as left operand.

If supportList is a list of strings, then this should work in Python 2.3 and
above:

for i in supportList:
if 'Remove' in i:
print 'Found it in', i

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