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Sangamesh
Sangamesh

Reputation: 545

check a string inside a string in a list

list = [america , china, japan, mvnsangameshertet,]

I want to check whether the any string in the list contains the name sangamesh. for example:

I can use this:

for a in list:
    if "sangamesh" in a:
        print True
    else:
        print False

But this gives me result like 

False
False
False
True

I just want the output as either True or False

I am still a beginner I tried a lot but couldnt come up with an alternative!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 89

Answers (2)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1121972

Use any():

print any("sangamesh" in a for a in lst)

This will return True as soon as there is any a for which the test is True; it won't test any more values after that.

For future reference, you could also end your loop with break:

for a in lst:
    if "sangamesh" in a:
        print True
        break
else:
    print False

Note that the else is now part of the for loop instead; if you do not break out of the loop, at the end the else suite is executed, but if you do break, then the else suite is skipped.

Upvotes: 6

jamylak
jamylak

Reputation: 133554

>>> items = ["america" , "china", "japan", "mvnsangameshertet"]
>>> any("sangamesh" in s for s in items)
True

Upvotes: 3

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