searching within nested list in python

Question

I have a list:

l = [[\'en\', 60, \'command\'],[\'sq\', 34, \'komand\']]

I want to search for komand or sq and get

Answer 1

If all you're trying to do is return the first list that contains a match for any of the values then this will work.

def search(inlist, matches):
    for li in inlist:
        for m in matches:
            if m in li:
                return li
    return None

>>> l = [['en', 60, 'command'],['sq', 34, 'komand']]
>>> search(l, ('sq', 'komand'))
['sq', 34, 'komand']