On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:07 AM Pradeep Patra <smilesonisa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks David /Anthony for your help. I figured out the issue myself. I > dont need any ^, $ etc to the regex pattern and the plain string (for exp > my-dog) works fine. I am looking at creating a generic method so that > instead of passing my-dog i can pass my-cat or blah blah. I am thinking of > creating a list of probable combinations to search from the list. Anybody > have better ideas? >
If you just want to find a string in another string, don't use regular expressions at all! Just ask Python directly: >>> print("my-cat" in "This is where you can find my-cat, look, see!") True ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list