Barry A. Warsaw :

AC> substringp would probably be the wrong name for it, though.

Hmm, "hassubstring()"?

How about "contains"? E.g. if a.contains(b): # do stuff -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> (Those) who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right (are) courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like. -- Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School

Barry A. Warsaw :

ESR> How about "contains"? E.g.

| if a.contains(b): | # do stuff

Heh, and from there it's a small leap to a.__contains__(b), a.k.a. "b in a".

Sneaky Eric, very sneaky. :)

You know, that didn't consciously occur to me. Which only goes to show that my unconscious mind is even *more* evil...BWAHAHAHAHAA! -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries *by a government*, which we might expect in a country *without government*, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." -- Thomas Paine