Check Substring Match Of A Word In A List Of Words

I want to check if a word is in a list of words. word = 'with' word_list = ['without', 'bla', 'foo', 'bar'] I tried if word in set(list), but it is not yielding the wanted result

Solution 1:

You could do:

found = any(word in item for item in wordlist)

It checks each word for a match and returns true if any are matches

Solution 2:

in is working as expected for an exact match:

>>>word = "with">>>mylist = ["without", "bla", "foo", "bar"]>>>word in mylist
False
>>>

You can also use:

milist.index(myword)  # gives error if your word is not in the list (use in a try/except)

or

milist.count(myword)  # gives a number > 0 if the word is in the list.

However, if you are looking for a substring, then:

for item in mylist:
    if word in item:     
        print'found'break

btw, dont use list for the name of a variable

Solution 3:

You could also create a single search string by concatenating all of the words in word_list into a single string:

word = "with"word_list = ' '.join(["without", "bla", "foo", "bar"])

Then a simple in test will do the job:

return word in word_list