How to make a function return a list of indices of the characters in the second string that appears in the first string?

Question

def get_indices_from_the_second_string(string1, string2):
    \'\'\'(str, str) -> list of int
    >>> get_indices_from_the_second_string(\'AGTACACGTTAC\', \'         


        

Answer 1

Use the built in function zip, along with another built in enumerate

acc = []
for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(string1, string2)):
    if a==b:
        acc.append(i)
return acc