Python: list and string matching

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Published on 2010-04-23T07:26:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 7:33 UTC
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Hi All,

I have following:

temp = "aaaab123xyz@+"

lists = ["abc", "123.35", "xyz", "AND+"]

for list in lists
  if re.match(list, temp, re.I):
    print "The %s is within %s." % (list,temp)

The re.match is only match the beginning of the string, How to I match substring in between too.

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