On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 08:40:50 -0700, subhabrata.banerji wrote: > if ("AND" in inp1) or ("OR" in inp1) or ("NOT" in inp1) or (">" in > inp1) or ("&" in inp1) or ("MAYBE" in inp1) or ("(" in inp1) or ("*" > in inp1) or (''' " ''' in inp1):
This is better written as: if any(substr in inp1 for substr in ['AND', 'OR', 'NOT', '>', '&', 'MAYBE', '(', '*', ' " ']): print 'FINE' -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list