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Re: string contains and special characters

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2012-10-09 08:09 -0700
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Subject Re: string contains and special characters
From loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com>
Message-ID <mailman.2005.1349795375.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:19:33 UTC+1, Agon Hajdari wrote:
> On 10/09/2012 04:02 PM, loial wrote: > I am trying to match a string that containing the "<" and ">" characters, using the string contains function, but it never seems to find the lines containing the string > > e.g if mystring.contains("<TAG>") : > > Do I need to escape the characters...and if so how? > if '<TAG>' in yourstring: # your code -- Agon Hajdari

That worked...thanks

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string contains and special characters loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 07:02 -0700
  Re: string contains and special characters Agon Hajdari <agonh@freenet.de> - 2012-10-09 16:10 +0200
    Re: string contains and special characters loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 08:09 -0700
    Re: string contains and special characters loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 08:09 -0700
  Re: string contains and special characters Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-09 10:23 -0400
  Re: string contains and special characters Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 10:34 -0400
  Re: string contains and special characters Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-09 10:34 -0400
  Re: string contains and special characters Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-09 15:50 +0100
  Re: string contains and special characters Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-09 16:59 +0200

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