Python - match a word in a string with a list of strings

Question

I\'m new to python and I was wondering how string comparison is done

Let\'s say I have a list of strings containing state names like

states = [\"New York         


        

Answer 1

You can try like this,

In [2]: states = ["New York", "California", "Nebraska", "Idaho"]

In [3]: postal_addr = "1234 1st E St San Jose California 95112"

In [4]: ''.join(state for state in states if state in postal_addr)
Out[4]: 'California'