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

Create a checker with just a test if it is in the line

def check_word_in_line(word, line):
    return " {} ".format(word) in line

print(check_word_in_line("or", "I can go shopping or not")) //True
print(check_word_in_line("or", "I can go shopping for shoes")) //False