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Or How to if-statement in a modified list.

I’ve been reading StackOverflow for a while (thanks to everyone). I love it. I also seen that you can post a question and answer it yourself. Sorry if I duplicate, but I didn’t found this particular answer on StackOverflow.

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• How do you verify if a element is in a list but modify it in the same time?

My problem:

myList = ["Foo", "Bar"]
if "foo" in myList:
  print "found!"

As I don’t know the case of the element in the list I want to compare with lower case list. The obvious but ugly answer would be:

myList = ["Foo", "Bar"]
lowerList = []

for item in myList:
  lowerList.append(item.lower())

if "foo" in lowerList:
  print "found!"

Can I do it better ?

Answer 1

if any(s.lower() == "foo" for s in list): print "found"