Check if a Python list item contains a string inside another string

Question

I have a list:

my_list = [\'abc-123\', \'def-456\', \'ghi-789\', \'abc-456\']

and want to search for items that contain the string \'

Answer 1

mylist=['abc','def','ghi','abc']

pattern=re.compile(r'abc') 

pattern.findall(mylist)