How do I use boolean logic to make this if-statement more concise in python 3?

Question

I want to extract job titles that consist of either "back-end", "back end" or "backend" from json data of a website. I managed to do so with the following code:

if "back-end" in jobtitle.lower():
            print(jobtitle)
if "back end" in jobtitle.lower():
            print(jobtitle)
if "backend" in jobtitle.lower():
            print(jobtitle)
else:
            continue

The example output is as below:

Software Back-End Developer
(Senior) Back-end PHP Developer
Backend Developer (m/w/d)
Back End Developer
Front-End / Back-End Developer (m/w/d)

How do I make it more concise?

Answer 1

Do you have to use if ... in? Another solution would be to use regular expressions

back[\-\s]?end Try it here

Explanation:

• back: Match "back"
• [\-\s]: Any of these characters: - or <whitespace>
• ?: Zero or one of the previous
• end: Match "end"

Run it in Python like so:

rexp = re.compile(r"back[\s\-]?end", re.IGNORECASE)
if re.search(rexp, jobtitle):
    print(jobtitle)