Check if string appears as its own word - Python

Question

Let\'s say that I am looking for the word \"or\". What I want is to check whether that word appears as a word or as a substring of another word.

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Answer 1

You can use a regular expression for this:

import re

def contains_word(text, word):
    return bool(re.search(r'\b' + re.escape(word) + r'\b', text))

print(contains_word('or', 'or')) # True
print(contains_word('for', 'or')) # False
print(contains_word('to be or not to be', 'or')) # True