[FIXED] string appears as subset of character in list element python

Issue

So far, I have:

my_list = ['hello', 'oi']
comparison_list = ['this hellotext', 'this oitext']

for w in my_list:
    if w in comparison_list: print('yes')

However, nothing prints because no element in my_list equals any element in comparison_list.

So how do I make this check as a subset or total occurance?

Ideal output:

yes
yes

Solution

You are checking the occurrence of the complete string in the list currently. Instead you can check for the occurrence of the string inside each comparison string and make a decision. A simple approach will be to re-write the loop as below

for w in my_list:
    # Check for every comparison string. any() considers atleast 1 true value
    if any([True for word in comparison_list if w in word]):
        print('yes')

Answered By - Kris