[SOLVED] basic python question - check if a string contains some text?

[ryanVickers]

I am aware that in bash you can go

if [[ $var =~ "value" ]]; then

and this will check for if the variable "var" contains the text "value". How would one go about doing this in python?
so far, I have

if var == value:

but that is of course to check if it is solely equal to it - I want to detect if it contains it

[Mr.popo]

var = "value"
if "value" in var:
    print "True"

Do you mean that?

[ryanVickers]

with the exception of the fact that "var" will be ever changing user input, I believe this will do quite nicely