>>>>> "ESR" == Eric S Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>> substringp would probably be the wrong name for it, though.
>> Hmm, "hassubstring()"?
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. :)
-Barry