Question

Consider the following list:

items = ['about-conference','conf']

Iterating over the list using the following for loop prints “about-conference” and “conf”

for word in items:
    if 'conf' in word:
        print word

How do I get the if statement to only prove true if it encounters an exact match i.e printing “conf” only?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Don’t use in, use == to test for exact equality:

if word == "conf":
   print word