Python: Find in list

Question

I have come across this:

item = someSortOfSelection()
if item in myList:
    doMySpecialFunction(item)

but sometimes it does not work with

Answer 1

If you want to find one element or None use default in next, it won't raise StopIteration if the item was not found in the list:

first_or_default = next((x for x in lst if ...), None)