On Freitag 24 September 2010, Wim Feijen wrote: > would really like having a string.contains('...') function > which returns either True or False. I know I can mimick this > behaviour by saying string.find('...') != -1 , however, I > find this harder to read. >>> a = 'xy134' >>> '13' in a True >>> '15' in a False >>> -- Wolfgang