[Tutor] Searching for a substring within a list

[Scot Stevenson]

Hello Magnus, 

My apologies if this has already been pointed out, I didn't see it:

> For detecting substrings, the normal python idiom is:
>
> bigString = "sldkfkjhgksdhfksdhf"
> subString = "ks"
>
> if bigString.find(subString) != -1:
>      print "I found", subString, "in", bigString

Which I always thought was terribly counterintuitive (waddaya mean, "-1"? ). I 
remember trying 

if subString in bigString:
    print "I found", subString, "in", bigString

which _doesn't_ work, much to my surprise; only single character substrings 
are found this way. 

However, I have been told that this will change in a future release, thereby 
bringing even more clarity to the language, and we can do away with this 
strange "-1" stuff. 

Y, Scot

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               Scot W. Stevenson - Zepernick, Germany