Filtering a list of strings based on contents

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This simple filtering can be achieved in many ways with Python. The best approach is to use “list comprehensions” as follows:

>>> lst = ['a', 'ab', 'abc', 'bac']
>>> [k for k in lst if 'ab' in k]
['ab', 'abc']

Another way is to use the filter function. In Python 2:

>>> filter(lambda k: 'ab' in k, lst)
['ab', 'abc']

In Python 3, it returns an iterator instead of a list, but you can cast it:

>>> list(filter(lambda k: 'ab' in k, lst))
['ab', 'abc']

Though it’s better practice to use a comprehension.

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