I have a list:
my_list = ['abc-123', 'def-456', 'ghi-789', 'abc-456']
and want to search for items that contain the string 'abc'
. How can I do that?
if 'abc' in my_list:
would check if 'abc'
exists in the list but it is a part of 'abc-123'
and 'abc-456'
, 'abc'
does not exist on its own. So how can I get all items that contain 'abc'
?
If you only want to check for the presence of abc
in any string in the list, you could try
some_list = ['abc-123', 'def-456', 'ghi-789', 'abc-456']
if any("abc" in s for s in some_list):
# whatever
If you really want to get all the items containing abc
, use
matching = [s for s in some_list if "abc" in s]