Track 7 · Lesson 4 of 11

Searching inside text

Locate and count text with in, find, rfind, index and count, and check beginnings and endings with startswith and endswith.

You will be able to

• Choose between in, find() and index() depending on whether you need a yes/no answer or a position
• Handle the 'not found' case correctly: -1 from find() and ValueError from index()
• Count occurrences of a substring and search case-insensitively
• Check how text starts or ends with startswith() and endswith(), including several options at once