List of strings
Paul Watson
pwatson at redlinepy.com
Wed Aug 17 22:58:25 EDT 2005
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.
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