[Tutor] partial string matching in list comprehension?
doug shawhan
doug.shawhan at gmail.com
Thu May 25 21:34:24 CEST 2006
I have a series of lists to compare with a list of exclusionary terms.
junkList =["interchange", "ifferen", "thru"]
The comparison lists have one or more elements, which may or may not contain
the junkList elements somewhere within:
l = ["My skull hurts", "Drive the thruway", "Interchangability is not my
forte"]
... output would be
["My skull hurts"]
I have used list comprehension to match complete elements, how can I do a
partial match?
def removeJunk(reply, junkList):
return [x for x in reply if x not in junkList]
It would be so much prettier than searching through each list element for
each term - I tend to get lost in a maze of twisty corridors, all alike.
Thanks!
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