Iterate through a list and return the element that contains a specific word

Question

i have this code below:

wordSearch = "ghi"
lst = ['c:/test/abc.bat','c:/test/test1/def.bat','c:/123/ghi.exe','c:/test/testing/aa/jkl.bat']

by searching "ghi" I would like it to return "c:/123/ghi.exe". So, ultimately i want it to iterate through the list and return an element that contains specific text.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Use a list comprehension like this:

[item for item in lst if wordSearch in item]

The above line will return any item that contains wordSearch.

Output:

>>> wordSearch = "ghi"
>>> lst = ['c:/test/abc.bat','c:/test/test1/def.bat','c:/123/ghi.exe','c:/test/testing/aa/jkl.bat']
>>> 
>>> [item for item in lst if wordSearch in item]
['c:/123/ghi.exe']