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user1311888
user1311888

Reputation: 793

In a list of string, how to remove string which are part of other string in the list?

In a list of string, how to remove string which are part of other string in the list?

Here is an example.

lst = ['Hello World', 'Hello', 'This is test', 'is test']

I would like to only get ['Hello World', 'This is test'] as the output.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (2)

Mihai Alexandru-Ionut
Mihai Alexandru-Ionut

Reputation: 48357

You can apply list comprehension in order to filter list.

Also, use filter method by applying a lambda expression as argument.

lst = ['Hello World', 'Hello', 'This is test', 'is test']
lst = [string for string in lst if len(list(filter(lambda x: string in x, lst))) == 1]

Output

['Hello World', 'This is test']

Upvotes: 1

Ajax1234
Ajax1234

Reputation: 71451

You can use any:

lst = ['Hello World', 'Hello', 'This is test', 'is test']
new_results = [a for i, a in enumerate(lst) if any(h in a and c != i for c, h in enumerate(lst))]

Output:

['Hello World', 'This is test']

Upvotes: 1

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