steve at holdenweb
Mar 4, 2005, 12:32 PM
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Re: __contains__ inconsistencies between Python 2.2 and 2.3
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Anand S Bisen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have been developing a code that works pretty well on my python 2.3
> and now when i am running it on my server where it is programmed to run
> it's giving me errors. I have been using __contains__ method and it
> fails on python 2.2
>
> For example
>
> (Python 2.3)
> >> x="Hello World"
> >> print x.__contains__("Hello")
> True
>
> (Python 2.2)
>
> >>> x="Hello world"
> >>> print x.__contains__("Hello")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: 'in <string>' requires character as left operand
>
>
> Is there any woraround for this or what am i doing wrong in 2.2 ?
>
> Thanks
>
Any use of double-underscores is an indication that magic is at work. In
this case the __contains__ method is intended to be called by the
interpreter when you write
x in s
The __contains__ method was extended for strings in 2.3 so that
construct could be used as a test to see whether s contained x as a
substring. Before that, as the error message explains, it will only test
to see whether a single character is contained in the string (by analogy
with
1 in [3, 4, 5, 2]
in case you are interested).
So you'll need to use the .find() string method and say
if x.find("Hello") != -1:
... you found "Hello"
because your ISP appears to be using an older version of Python than you.
regards
Steve
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