How to search for an item in a list of lists?

Question

How can I do something like this.

index=[[test1,test2,test3],[test4,test5,test6],[test7,test8,test9]]
if test5 is in index:
    print True

Answer 1

Loop over your list of lists, and check for existence in each inner list:

for list in list_of_lists:
  if needle in list :
    print 'Found'