Get specific word from a sentence if it has a certain character

I’m trying to get one single word out of a string if it contains a certain character.

I want to do something like this:

string = 'My email is email@example.com and I use it a lot.'

if '@' in string:
    return email

But how can I get python to know exactly where the keyword is and return it’s value.

In this case it would return email@example.com

>Solution :

You can also use regex for your purposes. In this regex pattern \S* means "Any non-whitespace character". You can test the regular expression here.

import re

string = 'My email is email@example.com and I use it a lot.'

search_word = re.search(r'(\S*)@(\S*)', string)
if search_word:
    print(search_word.group())
else:
    print("Word was not found.")