Substring filter list elements by another list in Python

You can use any:

list1 = ['bj-100-cy','bj-101-hd','sh-200-pd','sh-201-hp']
list2 = [100, 200]
list2 = [str(x) for x in list2]

outcome = [s for s in list1 if any(x in s for x in list2)]

any returns True if any of the conditions you give it are True.

list1 = str(list1)
list2 = str(list2)

You are converting your list into a string with the above statements. So when you iterate in a for loop, you are iterating each characters, instead of each word.

So you should remove string conversion and instead do a list comprehension as follows. Also, in your outcome file instead of checking if the word in list2 is in list1, you are checking the opposite. So you got like 100 and 200 as chars which are in list 2.

list1 = ['bj-100-cy','bj-101-hd','sh-200-pd','sh-201-hp']
list2 = [100, 200]
outcome = [x for x in list1 for y in list2 if str(y) in x]

You can try this one:

list1 = ['bj-100-cy','bj-101-hd','sh-200-pd','sh-201-hp']
list2 = [100, 200]

outcome = []
for item in list1:
    if any(str(i) in item for i in list2):
        outcome.append(item)

output:

['bj-100-cy', 'sh-200-pd']

Another alternative list comprehension :

>>> list1 = ['bj-100-cy','bj-101-hd','sh-200-pd','sh-201-hp']
>>> list2 = [100, 200]
>>> occur = [i for i in list1  for j in list2 if str(j) in i]
>>> occur
['bj-100-cy', 'sh-200-pd']

You can use builtin filter method to filter the list based on your condition. Your condition requires python in operator to search for needle([100, 200]) in haystack ([['bj-100-cy','bj-101-hd',...]]). We can use contains method to simplify search syntax.

Code

from operator import contains
filter(lambda x: any(contains(x,str(y)) for y in list2), list1)

Example

>>> list1 = ['bj-100-cy','bj-101-hd','sh-200-pd','sh-201-hp']
>>> list2 = [100, 200]
>>> for item in filter(lambda x: any(contains(x,str(y)) for y in list2), list1):
...     print(item)
...
bj-100-cy
sh-200-pd

You can use regex:

import re

list1 = ['bj-100-cy', 'bj-101-hd', 'sh-200-pd', 'sh-201-hp']
list2 = [100, 200]

pattern = re.compile('|'.join(map(str, list2)))
list(filter(pattern.search, list1))
# ['bj-100-cy', 'sh-200-pd']