How To Check If File Contains String With Python

The aim of this page📝 is for checking for a string in python which is a combination of the 3 built-in methods. I am using this when unit-testing the functionality of logging. This is the pattern:

open('<FILENAME>', 'r').read().find('<STRING>')

• See str.find(sub[, start[, end]]) < Built-in Types < Python documentation
• The value is stream position pointer

LINKS

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4940032/how-to-search-for-a-string-in-text-files
• str.find(sub[, start[, end]]) < Built-in Types < Python documentation