Python - Remove any element from a list of strings that is a substring of another element

Question

So starting with a list of strings, as below

string_list = [\'rest\', \'resting\', \'look\', \'looked\', \'it\', \'spit\']

I wan

Answer 1

Here is a one-liner that does what you want:

filter(lambda x: [x for i in string_list if x in i and x != i] == [], string_list)

Example:

>>> string_list = ['rest', 'resting', 'look', 'looked', 'it', 'spit']
>>> filter(lambda x: [x for i in string_list if x in i and x != i] == [], string_list)
['resting', 'looked', 'spit']