08_07.py

# Section 8.7 snippets

# Counting Occurrences
sentence = 'to be or not to be that is the question'

sentence.count('to')

sentence.count('to', 12)

sentence.count('that', 12, 25)

# Locating a Substring in a String
sentence.index('be')

sentence.rindex('be')

# Determining Whether a String Contains a Substring 
'that' in sentence

'THAT' in sentence

'THAT' not in sentence

# Locating a Substring at the Beginning or End of a String
sentence.startswith('to')

sentence.startswith('be')

sentence.endswith('question')

sentence.endswith('quest')




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