On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a > similarly easy method? > > Tim Chase wrote: > > > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a > > > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not? > > > > >>> substring = 'foo' > > >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar' > > >>> substring in targetstring > > True > > >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup' > > yup
>>> t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e') >>> a = 'a' >>> a in t True >>> y = 'y' >>> y in t False >>> t = ('test', 'black', 'white') >>> a = 'a' >>> [i for i in t if a in i] ['black'] >>> HTH :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list