On 08/22/2012 12:17 AM, Ian Foote wrote: > Oops, hopefully this with indent correctly: > > def all_in(string, substrings): > for substring in substrings: > if substring not in string: > return False > return True
The POP's question was ambiguous (did he want to match any of the substrings, or all of the substrings), but his example code: ("a" in "adfbdfc") or ( "b" in "adfbdfc") or ("c" in "adfbdfc" ) implements the opposite sense of what you have. So perhaps he'd want: def any_in(string, substrings): for substring in substrings: if substring in string: return True: return False -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list