[Tutor] position of an element in list:

[Christian Witts]

On 23/07/2010 15:22, Vineeth Rakesh wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have str1 
> = "welcome to the world" if i want to return the position of the first 
> occurrence of "o" how to do it?
>
> Thanks
> Vin
>
>
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Strings have a function called index, which take a string argument which 
is what you're looking for.  So you can do str1.index('o') which would 
return 4.

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Kind Regards,
Christian Witts


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