Testing if string contains a substring

[Oren Tirosh]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:44:57PM +0200, Frantisek Fuka wrote:
> I want a simple test to see if str contains any occurences of substr. I 
> am currently using this:
> 
> import string
> if string.find(str,substr) + 1:
>     ...do something...
> 
> But it somehow looks "ugly" to me. Is there more "standard" way to test 
> this?

if haystack.count(needle):
   ...

"If the count of needles in haystack is nonzero then..."

    Oren