Check if a Python list item contains a string inside another string

Question

I have a list:

my_list = [\'abc-123\', \'def-456\', \'ghi-789\', \'abc-456\']

and want to search for items that contain the string \'

Answer 1

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]