What's wrong with this code??

Question

The code is to search for a substring...the code takes in 2 inputs...the 2nd string is used to search...i.e 2nd string is smaller in length.

a=input("Enter the 1st string")   //Giving error here
b=input("Enter the second string")

com=""

for x in range(0,len(a)):
       com=""
       for j in range(x,len(b)+x):
                com=com+a[j]
       if(com==b):
       print "Match Found at" + str(x)
       else:
       continue

The code doest compile....pls help

Answer 1

If you are using Python 2.x, you need to use raw_input, not input. input tries to evaluate what you enter as though it is Python code. This is no longer true in Python 3.

Another obvious thing is that this:

if(com==b):
print "Match Found at" + str(x)
else:
continue

... needs to be indented like this:

if(com==b):
    print "Match Found at" + str(x)
else:
    continue

Answer 2

b.find( a )