Get index of partial match in a list

Question

Hi assuming I have the following list:

words = ['maritus', 'et', 'quolibet', 'is', 'habitancium', 'dico', 'locum~locus', 'domus', 'totus', 'tempus', 'vitis', 'is', 'de', 'quolibet', 'ipse']

and the following word: locus

and I want to get the index of where it is found in words ie: 6 the following:

ind = words.index('locus')

will only work for whole words

Answer 1

Use next() on a generator that yields each word in the words list that locus is in . However, since you want the index, you should enumerate the words list and only yield the index, i .

next(i for i, w in enumerate(words) if 'locus' in w)
#6

To get the indexes of all the occurrences, we can use a list-comprehension :

[i for i, w in enumerate(words) if 'locus' in w]