Testing if string contains a substring

[Jp Calderone]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:23:24PM +0000, Klaus Alexander Seistrup wrote:
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> [snip]
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> >>> contains = lambda haystack, needle: haystack.find(needle) > 0

  The above should be >= 0, otherwise the first example below fails.

> >>> contains('foo bar fly', 'foo')
> 1

  Jp

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