String exact match

Question

I have a string in which the word \"LOCAL\" occurs many times. I used the find() function to search for this word but it returns another word \"Locally\" as wel

Answer 1

Below you can use simple function.

def find_word(text, search):

   result = re.findall('\\b'+search+'\\b', text, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
   if len(result)>0:
      return True
   else:
      return False

Using:

text = "Hello, LOCAL locally local test local."
search = "local"
if find_word(text, search):
  print "i Got it..."
else:
  print ":("