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

Yes:

has_oneof = lambda *patterns: lambda: values any(p in values for p in patterns)
result = itertools.ifilter(has_oneof('komand', 'sq'), l).next()
print result # prints ['sq', 34, 'komand']