[Tutor] script error question [checking for substrings]

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> > An alternative is to split the string:
> >
> > >>> "hello" in "hello world".split()
> > 1
> 
> But your split() alternative fails miserably if the substring 
> you're looking for contains spaces:
> 
> >>> "hello world".find("o w")
> 4
> >>> "o w" in "hello world".split()
> 0
> 
> Just something to beware of.

Absolutely, it is only a slightly more readable form that 
looks more like the "if X in S". I don't expect anyone 
to try 

if "x o" in "ghfgfhg hjg jhvhnbmvbv hjb "

For that, and any other general search, find() is undoubtedly best.

Alan G.