Check if a list of string contains particular letter or charcater in it(python)

Question

How do we find a letter or special character present in list of strings? I have a list and want to check if it contains particular letter in it. I tried to do but getting an error.

code:

lst = ['Mangos*','apples,'REd']
for l in lst:
    if l.contains('M') or l.contains('*'):
             print(l)

getting an error:

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'contains'

Should we not use contains? or what should we to find if a string has particular letter or special character?

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '21 at 15:05

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lst = ['Mangos*','apples','REd']
for l in lst:
    if 'M' in l or '*' in l:
             print(l)

answered Mar 19 '21 at 15:05

Syed Ashraf

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '21 at 16:02

If you want to find a specific letter in your string you can use a regular expression. first, you need to import os and import re. Then we can create a loop for each match.

import os  
import re 

lst = ['Mangos*','apples','REd']

for l in lst:  
    find = re.findall("M",l)  
    if find:  
        print(l)

Output

Mangos*

Check if a list of string contains particular letter or charcater in it(python)

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Output