Examples for string find in Python

I'm not sure what you're looking for, do you mean find()?

>>> x = "Hello World"
>>> x.find('World')
6
>>> x.find('Aloha');
-1

you can use str.index too:

>>> 'sdfasdf'.index('cc')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#144>", line 1, in <module>
    'sdfasdf'.index('cc')
ValueError: substring not found
>>> 'sdfasdf'.index('df')
1

From the documentation:

str.find(sub[, start[, end]])

Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found within the slice s[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. Return -1 if sub is not found.

So, some examples:

>>> my_str = 'abcdefioshgoihgs sijsiojs '
>>> my_str.find('a')
0
>>> my_str.find('g')
10
>>> my_str.find('s', 11)
15
>>> my_str.find('s', 15)
15
>>> my_str.find('s', 16)
17
>>> my_str.find('s', 11, 14)
-1

Honestly, this is the sort of situation where I just open up Python on the command line and start messing around:

 >>> x = "Dana Larose is playing with find()"
 >>> x.find("Dana")
 0
 >>> x.find("ana")
 1
 >>> x.find("La")
 5
 >>> x.find("La", 6)
 -1

Python's interpreter makes this sort of experimentation easy. (Same goes for other languages with a similar interpreter)

find( sub[, start[, end]])

Return the lowest index in the string where substring sub is found, such that sub is contained in the range [start, end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation. Return -1 if sub is not found.

From the docs.

if x is a string and you search for y which also a string their is two cases : case 1: y is exist in x so x.find(y) = the index (the position) of the y in x . case 2: y is not exist so x.find (y) = -1 this mean y is not found in x.

Try

myString = 'abcabc'
myString.find('a')

This will give you the index!!!