On Sep 6, 12:47 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:54:55 -0700, TheFlyingDutchman wrote: > > To do a "*string" wildcard filter use the endswith() function instead > > of startswith() and to do a *string* type wildcard filter use > > the find() function > -1. > > Maybe better the ``in`` operator for the '*string*' type. `str.find()` > will go away in the future. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
string.find serves a useful purpose in that it returns the starting location of the string found, or -1 if not found, so if you wanted to slice "abdecf" on"c", string.find will tell you where that is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
