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 use in to look for an item in a collection, and a list comprehension to extract the field you are interested in. This (works for lists, sets, tuples, and anything that defines __contains__ or __getitem__).

if 5 in [data.n for data in myList]:
    print "Found it"

See also:

• Contains Method
• In operation