On Fri, 28 Sep, Kevin Walzer wrote: > 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
Just compare for equality: if line == 'x11': or print "\n".join(x for x in mylist if x == 'x11') -- Stefan Bellon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list