[Tutor] Indexing a List of Strings

[Spyros Charonis]

Greetings Python List,

I have a motif sequence (a list of characters e.g. 'EAWLGHEYLHAMKGLLC')
whose index I would like to return.
The list contains 20 strings, each of which is close to 1000 characters long
making it far too cumbersome to display an example.
I would like to know if there is a way to return a pair of indices, one
index where my sequence begins (at 'E' in the above case) and
one index where my sequence ends (at 'C' in the above case). In short, if
'EAWLGHEYLHAMKGLLC' spans 17 characters is it possible
to get something like 100 117, assuming it begins at 100th position and goes
up until 117th character of my string. My loop goes as
follows:

for item in finalmotifs:
    for line in my_list:
        if item in line:
            print line.index(item)

But this only returns a single number (e.g 119), which is the index at which
my sequence begins.

Is it possible to get a pair of indices that indicate beginning and end of
substring?

Many thanks
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