How do I check for an EXACT word in a string in python

Question

Basically I need to find a way to figure out a way to find the EXACT word in a string. All the information i have read online has only given me how to search for letters in a string so

98787This is correct

will still come back as true in an if statement.

This is what I have so far.

  elif 'This is correct' in text:     print("correct") 

This will work with any combination of letters before the Correct... For example fkrjCorrect, 4123Correct and lolcorrect will all come back as true in the if statement. When I want it to come back as true only IF it exactly matches "This is correct"

Answer 1

You can use the word-boundaries of regular expressions. Example:

import re  s = '98787This is correct' for words in ['This is correct', 'This', 'is', 'correct']:     if re.search(r'\b' + words + r'\b', s):         print('{0} found'.format(words)) 

That yields:

is found correct found 

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EDIT: For an exact match, replace \b assertions with ^ and $ to restrict the match to the begin and end of line.

Answer 2

Use the comparison operator == instead of in then:

if text == 'This is correct':     print("Correct") 

This will check to see if the whole string is just 'This is correct'. If it isn't, it will be False