Finding a string multiple times in another String - Python

Question

I\'m trying to see if a string exists in another string with out using Python\'s predefined functions such as find and index..

Right now what my function takes 2 strings

Answer 1

probably the best way to do this is to keep calling the find function (this is fastest too)

def multifind(string, value, start = 0, stop = None):
    values = []
    while True:
        found = string.find(value, start, stop)
        if found == -1:
            break
        values.append(found)
        start = found + 1
    return values

print multifind('hello abc abc', 'abc')

Output:

[6, 10]