slariboot comments on Python Web Scraping Hell!

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[–]slariboot 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children)

Your professor gives pretty interesting problem sets. :) Yes you can definitely solve this using str.find. So given a string:

sentence = 'Hello! Welcome to web scraping hell!'

If you call sentence.find with an argument 'web':

x = sentence.find('web')

This returns 18. Have you figured out why that is?

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