searching within nested list in python

Question

I have a list:

l = [[\'en\', 60, \'command\'],[\'sq\', 34, \'komand\']]

I want to search for komand or sq and get

Answer 1

You can do it this way:

def find(value, seq):
    for index, item in enumerate(seq):
        if value in item: 
            return index, item

In [10]: find('sq', [['en', 60, 'command'],['sq', 34, 'komand']])
Out[10]: (1, ['sq', 34, 'komand'])

Or if you want a general solution:

def find(fun, seq):
    for index, item in enumerate(seq):
        if fun(item): 
            return index, item

def contain(value):
    return lambda l: value in l

In [14]: find(contain('komand'), [['en', 60, 'command'],['sq', 34, 'komand']])
Out[14]: (1, ['sq', 34, 'komand'])