From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-11-24T01:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to search through an array for an item matching a s

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Daniel Webb:

> am trying to find a nice easy/simple way to
> - search through an array of strings match the string I've input
> - use  that index to print out the word before in the array.

> for example
> [ahoy there,hello,me hearties,dear friends]

> 'hello' should output 'ahoy there'

dict =3D ['ahoy there', 'hello', 'me hearties', 'dear friends']
dict[dict.index('hello') - 1] # =3D> 'ahoy there'

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
The duck sauce contains =E2=80=98vegetable stabilizer=E2=80=99 which
sounds ominous. I mean, how unstable are vegetables?
                                        [jzahn, asr]

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