List of strings

[Tomi Kyöstilä]

Paul Watson wrote:
> Mohammed Altaj wrote:
> 
>> Hi All
>>
>> Thanks for your reply , what i am doing is , i am reading from file ,
>> using readlines() , I would like to check in these lines , if there is
>> line belong to another one or not , if it is , then i would like to
>> delete it
>>
>> ['0132442\n', '13\n', '24\n']
>> '13' is already in '0132442'
>> '24' is already in '0132442'
>> Thanks 
> 
> 
> $ python
> Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jul 19 2005, 14:16:43)
> [GCC 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> line = '0132442\n'
>  >>> line
> '0132442\n'
>  >>> line.find("13")
> 1
>  >>> line.find("03")
> -1
>  >>> line.find("24")
> 3
>  >>> print line.find.__doc__
> S.find(sub [,start [,end]]) -> int
> 
> Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
> such that sub is contained within s[start,end].  Optional
> arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
> 
> Return -1 on failure.

Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> line = '0132442\n'
 >>> line
'0132442\n'
 >>> "13" in line
True
 >>> "03" in line
False
 >>> "24" in line
True

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