'LIKE' function for Lists

Question

Is there any equivalent 'LIKE' function(like in MySQL) for lists. for example;

This is my list:

abc = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'twenty one']

if I give the word "on", it should print the matching words from the list (in this case: 'one', 'twenty one') and if I give "fo", it should print False

Answer 1

You can use list comprehension:

[m for m in abc if 'on' in m]

This roughly translates to "for each element in abc, append element to a list if the element contains the substring 'on'"