IanWing :
I have a list with 10 names and a list with many of phrases. I only want to select the phrases containing one of those names.
ArrayNames = [Mark, Alice, Paul]
ArrayPhrases = ["today is sunny", "Paul likes apples", "The cat is alive"]
In the example, is there any way to pick only the second phrase considering the face that contains Paul, given these two arrays? This is what I tried:
def foo(x,y):
tmp = []
for phrase in x:
if any(y) in phrase:
tmp.append(phrase)
print(tmp)
x is the array of phrases, y is the array of names. This is the output:
if any(y) in phrase:
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, bool found
I'm very unsure about the syntax I used concerning the any() construct. Any suggestions?
Dani Mesejo :
Your usage of any is incorrect, do the following:
ArrayNames = ['Mark', 'Alice', 'Paul']
ArrayPhrases = ["today is sunny", "Paul likes apples", "The cat is alive"]
result = []
for phrase in ArrayPhrases:
if any(name in phrase for name in ArrayNames):
result.append(phrase)
print(result)
Output
['Paul likes apples']
You are getting a TypeError because any returns a bool and your trying to search for a bool inside a string (if any(y) in phrase:).
Note that any(y) works because it will use the truthy value of each of the strings of y.
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