Find word in list created by xlrd and print sentence

Question

I have Excel files with data that I need to summarize so I've created a list called a_master that contains all of this info (using xlrd).

What I need to do now is search for a specific word for example "cloud" and if it finds the word, to print out the sentence that contains that word. It doesn't seem to work though.

It outputs everything that it finds after the searchable word.

for line in str(a_master):
  if "cloud" in line:
    print line

Answer 1

If a_master is a list as you said, probably this is what you want:

for line in a_master:
  str_line = str(line)
  if "cloud" in str_line:
    print str_line