I'm looking for a string.contains or string.indexof method in Python. I want to do: if not somestring.contains("blah"): continue

This seems like it should be pretty trivial, but I am new at Python and want to do it the most Pythonic way. I want to find the n'th occurrence of a substring in a string. There's got to be something equivalent to what I WANT to do which is mystring.f...

I have two strings and I would like to check whether the first is a substring of the other. Does Python have such a built-in functionality?

Let's say I have a string 'gfgfdAAA1234ZZZuijjk' and I want to extract just the '1234' part. I only know what will be the few characters directly before AAA, and after ZZZ the part I am interested in 1234. With sed it is possible to do something like th...

I have a string "MenuItem {Open source}". How can I get the string Open source from my string? e.g. str1 = "MenuItem {Open source}" perform some actions to set string two to be... print str2 # 'Open source' How can I acheive this using pytho...

How do I find a string between two substrings ('123STRINGabc' -> 'STRING')? My current method is like this: >>> start = 'asdf=5;' >>> end = '123jasd' >>> s = 'asdf=5;iwantthis123jasd' >>> print((s.split(start))[1]....

I have: a function: def find_str(s, char) and a string: "Happy Birthday", I essentially want to input "py" and return 3 but I keep getting 2 to return instead. Code: def find_str(s, char): index = 0 if char in s: char =...