[Tutor] Indexing a List of Strings

[Alan Gauld]

"Spyros Charonis" <s.charonis at gmail.com> wrote

> 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?


print line.index(item)+len(item)

Presumably since its matching item the end index will be len(item)
characters later? Or am I missing something?

Alan G.