{"id":20418,"date":"2022-11-09T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-python-comparing-elements-in-two-lists\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:26:49","slug":"solved-python-comparing-elements-in-two-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-python-comparing-elements-in-two-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Python comparing elements in two lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-20689942\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"20689942\" data-parentid=\"20667919\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve fixed the original problem, and fixed the next problem with doing the check backward, and renamed all of your variables, you have this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>for match in dictionary:\n    if any(match in value for value in sentences):\n        print match\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And your problem with it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The way I have the code written i can get the dictionary items but instead i want to print the sentences. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes, your <code>match<\/code> is a dictionary item, and that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re printing, so of course that&#8217;s what you get.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to print the sentences that contain the dictionary item, you can&#8217;t use <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.python.org\/3\/library\/functions.html#any\"><code>any<\/code><\/a>, because the whole point of that function us to just return True if any elements are true. It won&#8217;t tell you which ones\u2014in fact, if there are more than one, it&#8217;ll stop at the first one.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t understand functions like <code>any<\/code> and the generator expressions you&#8217;re passing to them, you really shouldn&#8217;t be using them as magic invocations. Figure out how to write them as explicit loops, and you will be able to answer these problems for yourself easily. (Note that the <code>any<\/code> docs directly show you how to write an equivalent loop.)<\/p>\n<p>For example, your existing code is equivalent to:<\/p>\n<pre><code>for match in dictionary:\n    for value in sentences:\n        if match in value:\n            print match\n            break\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Written that way, it should be obvious how to fix it. First, you want to print the sentence instead of the word, so print <code>value<\/code> instead of <code>match<\/code> (and again, it would really help if you used meaningful variable names like <code>sentence<\/code> and <code>word<\/code> instead of meaningless names like <code>value<\/code> and misleading names like <code>match<\/code>\u2026). Second, you want to print all matching sentences, not just the first one, so don&#8217;t <code>break<\/code>. So:<\/p>\n<pre><code>for match in dictionary:\n    for value in sentences:\n        if match in value:\n            print value\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And if you go back to my first answer, you may notice that this is the exact same structure I suggested.<\/p>\n<p>You <em>can<\/em> simplify or shorten this by using comprehensions and iterator functions, but not until you understand the simple version, and how those comprehensions and iterator functions work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Python comparing elements in two lists <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Now that you&#8217;ve fixed the original problem, and fixed the next problem with doing the check backward, and renamed all of your variables, you have this: for match in dictionary: if any(match in value for value in sentences): print match And your problem with it is: The way I have the code written i &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Python comparing elements in two lists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-python-comparing-elements-in-two-lists\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Python comparing elements in two lists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[834,540,349],"class_list":["post-20418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-dictionary","tag-list","tag-python"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Python comparing elements in two lists - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-python-comparing-elements-in-two-lists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Python comparing elements in two lists - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Now that you&#8217;ve fixed the original problem, and fixed the next problem with doing the check backward, and renamed all of your variables, you have this: for match in dictionary: if any(match in value for value in sentences): print match And your problem with it is: The way I have the code written i ... 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