Find an Exact Tuple Match in a List of Tuples and Return Its Index [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to figure out how to determine if a tuple has an exact match in a list of tuples, and if so, return the index of the matching tuple. For instance if I have:

TupList = [('ABC D','235'),('EFG H','462')]

I would like to be able to take any tuple ('XXXX','YYYY') and see if it has an exact match in TupList and if so, what its index is. So for example, if the tuple ('XXXX','YYYY') = (u'EFG H',u'462') exactly, then the code will return 1.

I also don't want to allow tuples like ('EFG', '462') (basically any substring of either tuple element) to match.

Answer 1

Use list.index:

>>> TupList = [('ABC D','235'),('EFG H','462')]
>>> TupList.index((u'EFG H',u'462'))
1

Answer 2

I think you can do it by this

TupList = [('ABC D','235'),('EFG H','462')]
if ('ABC D','235') in TupList:
   print TupList.index(i)