I'm having a problem with searching a list. Here's my code: mylist = ['x11', 'x11-wm', 'x11-system'] for line in mylist: if 'x11' in line: print line This results in the following output: x11 x11-wm x11-system I'm looking to return the list item that just has 'x11'. How can I structure my search term so that this output is returned?