I need to get a True or False if a variable contains a string match

[lostbit]

How can this be so hard, I have tried so many things.

So I have to search or compare s string to the value in a variable.

I just do not know how!

This scripts prints D90 and Fount IT, I want  instead a way to get a 0 or 1

so I can get trigger an LED if it is 0, a different LED if it is 1.

import sys

import os

i =  (“D90”)

print(i)

if i == (“D90”):

print(“Found IT”)

 

[Erik van Baaren]

So you want something like this, I think:

import sys
import os

i =  (“D90”)
print(i)

if i == (“D90”):
    # it's true, so set led
else:
    # it's false, set other led

 

[lostbit]

I find it strange so many python sites I searched

and no site had anything other than print()

Thank You

it worked

[lostbit]

I applied the if command to the real script and it does not work.

When check_camera has a groping of words including D90 it is not found.

I tried split I tried find with errors find not defined or missing attribute!!

I created a small script with check_camera = to the full string and again

check_camera = to just D90.

Here is the output

import time
import os
import sh
import sys

# below I just populate check_camera with the string coppied from
# shell terminal on my rasberry PI. The output print check_camera
# prints the same string. but if does not work.

print(“checking_camera”)
check_camera = (“Nikon DSC D90 (PTP mode) usb:001,005”)
print(check_camera)
if check_camera == (“D90”):
print(“found_camera”)
else:
print(“oops”)

#now check_camera only contains D90
print(“checking_camera”)
check_camera = (“D90”)
print(check_camera)
if check_camera == (“D90”):
print(“OK”)
else:
print(“shucks”)

import time
import os
import sh
import sys

# below I just populate check_camera with the string coppied from
# shell terminal on my rasberry PI. The output print check_camera
# prints the same string. but if does not work.

print(“checking_camera”)
check_camera = (“Nikon DSC D90 (PTP mode) usb:001,005”)
print(check_camera)
if check_camera == (“D90”):
print(“found_camera”)
else:
print(“oops”)

#now check_camera only contains D90
print(“checking_camera”)
check_camera = (“D90”)
print(check_camera)
if check_camera == (“D90”):
print(“OK”)
else:
print(“shucks”)

 

import time
import os
import sh
import sys

# below I just populate check_camera with the string coppied from
# shell terminal on my rasberry PI. The output print check_camera
# prints the same string. but if does not work.

print(“checking_camera”)
check_camera = (“Nikon DSC D90 (PTP mode) usb:001,005”)
print(check_camera)
if check_camera == (“D90”):
print(“found_camera”)
else:
print(“oops”)

#now check_camera only contains D90
print(“checking_camera”)
check_camera = (“D90”)
print(check_camera)
if check_camera == (“D90”):
print(“OK”)
else:
print(“shucks”)

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