How to search for words in a string with Python (substring)

In this article you will learn how to search for words in a string with Python, in a simple way using Python methods.

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The easiest way to check if a string contains any words in Python is to use “in”

This way we can make a conditional “in” our program, check it out:

phrase = 'O rato roeu a roupa do rei de Roma'

if 'rato' in phrase:
 print("Found!")

Just make sure that when using this method the variable you are looking for something, in our case phrase,  contain some value and be a string, otherwise your program will generate an error

Tip: You can leave the negative sentence using “not”  in instead of  ”in”

Another way we have to find strings in a string in Python is with the “find” method

Check out this example:

phrase = 'O rato roeu a roupa do rei de Roma'

if phrase.find('rato'):
 print("Found!")

In these two ways you can scan a string looking for a particular word.

Or as “substring methods” that’s how they  are commonly Known as

Performance

Regarding  performance, the “in” method comes out ahead of the “find” method

So prefer using it instead of using “find” in your software

Conclusion

In this article we learned  how to search for words in a string with Python

First we use “in”, which checks if a string is “in another string”

Then we learned a variation with the” find” method, which returns us in the same way looking for a certain string in another sentence.

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