Find an element in a list of tuples

Question

I have a list \'a\'

a= [(1,2),(1,4),(3,5),(5,7)]

I need to find all the tuples for a particular number. say for 1 it will be

Answer 1

There is actually a clever way to do this that is useful for any list of tuples where the size of each tuple is 2: you can convert your list into a single dictionary.

For example,

test = [("hi", 1), ("there", 2)]
test = dict(test)
print test["hi"] # prints 1

Answer 2

if you want to search tuple for any number which is present in tuple then you can use

a= [(1,2),(1,4),(3,5),(5,7)]
i=1
result=[]
for j in a:
    if i in j:
        result.append(j)

print(result)

You can also use if i==j[0] or i==j[index] if you want to search a number in particular index

Answer 3

[tup for tup in a if tup[0] == 1]

Answer 4

Using filter function:

>>> def get_values(iterables, key_to_find):

        return list(filter(lambda x:key_to_find in x, iterables)) 

>>> a = [(1,2),(1,4),(3,5),(5,7)]

>>> get_values(a, 1)

>>> [(1, 2), (1, 4)]

Answer 5

for item in a:
   if 1 in item:
       print item

Answer 6

The filter function can also provide an interesting solution:

result = list(filter(lambda x: x.count(1) > 0, a))

which searches the tuples in the list a for any occurrences of 1. If the search is limited to the first element, the solution can be modified into:

result = list(filter(lambda x: x[0] == 1, a))