Searching a list of objects in Python

Question

Let\'s assume I\'m creating a simple class to work similar to a C-style struct, to just hold data elements. I\'m trying to figure out how to search a list of objects for ob

Answer 1

You can get a list of all matching elements with a list comprehension:

[x for x in myList if x.n == 30]  # list of all elements with .n==30

If you simply want to determine if the list contains any element that matches and do it (relatively) efficiently, you can do

def contains(list, filter):
    for x in list:
        if filter(x):
            return True
    return False

if contains(myList, lambda x: x.n == 3)  # True if any element has .n==3
    # do stuff