Question

I am trying this below.

my_list = []

for row in reader: 
    a = row[0]
    b = row[1]
    c = row[2]
    s=("{0:<5s} {1:<5s} {2:<8s} ".format(a,b,c))
    lst = my_list.append(s)
    if b == ("Home"):
        n_lst = new_lst.appen(s)

I want if row b in my output equals “home” “gone” etc to put that line in a new list. I tried

if b == ("home", "gone"):

but that doesn’t work, is there a way to keep adding things to my if == statement instead of doing a bunch of elif statements?

Answer 1

Use the in keyword instead:

if b in ['home', 'gone']:

This checks to see if b is an element of that list.

Also, you seem to have a spelling mistake here:

n_lst = new_lst.appen(s)
                     ^