On 9/8/07, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same solution as above, but if you just want "Hello" and to not > include words containing "Hello", i.e. "Helloing" or "Unhello", then > you want to include a leading and/or trailing space.
You can also use the re (regular expression) module to search for "hello" and make sure it's a complete word. You would use re to search for something like "\bhello\b". "\b" being regex for an empty string that only occurs at the start or beginning of a word. More information on python regexes here: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ Here is an example from that page: >>> p = re.compile(r'\bclass\b') >>> print p.search('no class at all') <re.MatchObject instance at 80c8f28> >>> print p.search('the declassified algorithm') None >>> print p.search('one subclass is') None -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
