Does Python have a string 'contains' substring method?

Question

I'm looking for a string.contains or string.indexof method in Python.

I want to do:

if not somestring.contains("blah"):
   continue

user_10829001 · Answer

You can use y.count().

It will return the integer value of the number of times a sub string appears in a string.

For example:

string.count("bah") >> 0
string.count("Hello") >> 1

user_7013460 · Answer

You can use regular expressions to get the occurrences:

>>> import re
>>> print(re.findall(r'( |t)', to_search_in)) # searches for t or space
['t', ' ', 't', ' ', ' ']