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 > > This results in the following output: > > x11 > x11-wm > x11-system > > I'm looking to return the list item that just has 'x11'. How can I > structure my search term so that this output is returned?
line == 'x11' -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list