How to retrieve partial matches from a list of strings? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Instead of returning the result of the any() function, you can use a for-loop to look for the string instead:

def find_match(string_list, wanted):
    for string in string_list:
        if string.startswith(wanted):
            return string
    return None

>>> find_match(['ones', 'twos', 'threes'], "three")
'threes'