Aug 9, 2010 · Does Python have a string contains substring method? 99% of use cases will be covered using the keyword, in, which returns True or False: 'substring' in any_string For the …

str.find() and str.index() are nearly identical. the biggest difference is that when a string is not found, str.index() throws an error, like the one you got, while str.find() returns -1 as others' …

Mar 13, 2013 · In Python, what is the syntax for a statement that, given the following context: words = 'blue yellow' would be an if statement that checks to see if words contains the word …

Since Python string methods are not optimized, it's often faster to drop down to vanilla Python and perform whatever task you have using an explicit loop. So if you want good performance, use …

I'm working with Python, and I'm trying to find out if you can tell if a word is in a string. I have found some information about identifying if the word is in the string - using .find, but is ther...

The difference is, I wanted to check if a string is part of some list of strings whereas the other question is checking whether a string from a list of strings is a substring of another string. …

I'm looking for ignore case string comparison in Python. I tried with: if line.find('mandy') >= 0: but no success for ignore case. I need to find a set of words in a given text file. I am read...

I have a regular expression like this: regexp = u'ba[r|z|d]' Function must return True if word contains bar, baz or bad. In short, I need regexp analog for Python's 'any-string' in 'text' How …

I'm wondering if there is a more efficient way to use the str.contains() function in Pandas, to search for two partial strings at once. I want to search a given column in a dataframe for data that

Aug 11, 2019 · How can I use the OR operator for the str.contains funtion when searching for multiple strings in a column or in multiple columns in Python?