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 just need to know if 'abc' is in one of the items, this is the shortest way:

if 'abc' in str(my_list):