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codeman99
codeman99

Reputation: 87

Finding the Index of a character within a string

This may be worded incorrectly because I'm a wee beginner, but if I have a string how to I find a certain characters index like you can with the .index thing in lists.

With a list it makes sense:

 l = ["cat", "dog", "mouse"]

 animal = l.index["dog"]

will return [1], but how do I do the same thing with strings . . .

 s = "mouse"

 animal_letter = s.index["s"]

it says there is no attribute .index

Is there another way I can do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 15117

Answers (1)

Will P
Will P

Reputation: 192

Try the string.find method. 

s = "mouse"
animal_letter = s.find('s')
print animal_letter

It returns the 0-based index (0 is the first character of the string) or -1 if the pattern is not found.

>>> "hello".find('h')
0
>>> "hello".find('o')
4
>>> "hello".find("darkside")
-1

Upvotes: 4

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