Search String for Word

[digitalorganics]

What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?
Thanks...

[Tim Chase]

> What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a

booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?

substring = 'foo'
targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
substring in targetstring True if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'

yup

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html

-tkc

[digitalorganics]

I thought I'd seen that somewhere! Thanks Tim. I was previously using
re.search(substring, targetstring).

Tim Chase wrote:

What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?

>>> substring = 'foo'
>>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
>>> substring in targetstring True >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'

yup

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html

-tkc

[digitalorganics]

And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
similarly easy method?

Tim Chase wrote:

What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?

>>> substring = 'foo'
>>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
>>> substring in targetstring True >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'

yup

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html

-tkc

[Tim Williams]

On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, di*************@gmail.com
<di*************@gmail.com> wrote:

And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
similarly easy method?

Tim Chase wrote:

What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?

>>> substring = 'foo'
>>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
>>> substring in targetstring

True

>>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'

yup

t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
a = 'a'
a in t True y = 'y'
y in t False
t = ('test', 'black', 'white')
a = 'a'
[i for i in t if a in i] ['black']

HTH :)

[digitalorganics]

Thank you thank you!

Tim Williams wrote:

On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, di*************@gmail.com
<di*************@gmail.com> wrote:

And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
similarly easy method?

Tim Chase wrote:

> What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
> booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?

>>> substring = 'foo'
>>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
>>> substring in targetstring
True
>>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'
yup t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
a = 'a'
a in t True y = 'y'
y in t False
t = ('test', 'black', 'white')
a = 'a'
[i for i in t if a in i] ['black']

HTH :)