if 'hallo' in ['hallooo','halloooooooo'] problem

[Robert]

Sorry!!!!

the example I gave I did not check. Of course it works.

The problem is somewhere else. My programm was doing this:

if 'hallo' in 'hallooooo':
....

instead of  (what I was thinking):

if 'hallo' in ['hallo']:
....


so , everything is fine. I did not see, that the variable holding the second
string is a string instead of a list.


Thanks for your replies!!!!!!



"Robert" <rmanx at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:c53k55$mm2$1 at news.mch.sbs.de...
> Hi,
>
> I have a little problem and mybe one of you has got the solution.
> I would like to check if a string is in a list of strings.
> The following returns true:
> if 'hallo' in ['halloooo','hallooooooooo']:
>     pass
>
> but I want to check if the string is exactly equal to any string in the
> list.
> How can I do this without the need to do something like this:
> def stringInList(self,string,list):
>         for oneStr in list:
>             if string == oneStr:
>                 return 1
>         return 0
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Robert
>
>