Question

I am trying to see if a string contains certain text and if so do something, i have been using python’s in operator, but i realized its too strict basically i have the following code

Usually this would return True

dynamic = "v23434"
filename = "v23434.jpg"

if dynamic in filename: return True

however, if i have

dynamic = "v23434-"
filename = "v23434.jpg"

then it returns False, due to the dash at the end of dynamic, so my question is, is there a way to check if the string filename has the string dynamic, but in a way that it doesn’t have to be a perfect match, a few characters is enough.

EDIT

By a few characters, i mean a substring made up of the first 3 characters in dynamic, so if i have

dynamic = "v23434-"
filename = "testingv23434.jpg"

then it should match, because the substring "v23" is found inside filename

Answer 1

If you just want to test the first three characters in your search term, then use

def test(dynamic, filename):
    return dynamic[:3] in filename