[Tutor] searching for a value in an array

[Erik Price]

On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 02:32  PM, anthony polis wrote:

> How do you search for a value in an array? For example:
>
> I need to check to see if the string "bob" is in the array "people".

To pick nits, Python doesn't have arrays -- it has List objects.

 >>> strings = ['one', 'two', 'three']
 >>> if ('one' in strings): print "Yes"
... else: print "No"
...
Yes
 >>> if ('four' in strings): print "Yes"
... else: print "No"
...
No




Erik





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