On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:33 PM, eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The 'in' operator also searches for a substring:
>
> >>> '' in 'abc'
> True
I forgot to mention, this use of slices is a peculiarity to strings.
In contrast, list.index and list.__contains__ ("in") match against
individual items. An empty list slice [] is not "in" ['a', 'b', 'c'].
Be careful about this use of substrings:
>>> 'care' in 'careful programming'
True
>>> 'care' in 'careful programming'.split()
False
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