Searching for a title thats 'starts with' in python?

Question

So I have a list of names

name_list = [\"John Smith\", \"John Wrinkle\", \"John Wayne\", \"David John\", \"David Wrinkle\", \"David Wayne\"]

I

Answer 1

Change your matches to:

matches = [name for name in name_list if name.startswith(search)]

You can also make some changes to your code:

# You can do this in one go
search = input(str("Search: ")).lower()

# Why bother looping if search string wasn't provided.
if not search:
    print("Empty search field")
else:
             # This can be a generator
    for i in (name for name in name_list if name.startswith(search)):
        print(i.title())