Identifying a Substring Within a Python String

Published: 06 April 2023
on channel: Real Python
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If you’re new to programming or come from a programming language other than Python, you may be looking for the best way to check whether a string contains another string in Python. You'll learn about a couple of string methods for this task.

This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here:
https://realpython.com/courses/python...

The rest of the course covers how to:
- Get to Know Regex for Finding Substrings
- Match a Substring Using re.search()
- Explore the Match object
- Find a Substring in a pandas DataFrame Column
- Filter DataFrame Rows With .str.contains()
- Use Regular Expressions With pandas