Question

I have a list of strings and i want to remove the strings having the strings in the list excludeList in them. Filter takes a function and a list, how can i “functionify” excluded not in? excludeList looks something like: ["A2123", "B323", "C22"]

and the kolaDataList looks like: ["Very long string somethingsomething B323", "Lorem ipsum"]

and the result should be [Lorem ipsum]

for excluded in excludeList:
    kolaDataList = filter((excluded not in), kolaDataList)

I suppose this would work in haskell but how do I do this in python?

Answer 1

You can use a lambda, or anonymous function:

for excluded in excludeList:
    kolaDataList = filter(lambda l: excluded not in l, kolaDataList)

Alternatively, just use a list comprehension:

for excluded in excludeList:
    kolaDataList = [l for l in kolaDataList if excluded not in l]