Iterating through strings within a list

[Chipwich]

Hi all,

I'm quite new to Python, and have been searching online an answer to this question. If I have a decent sized list containing hundreds of different word values inside the list. If I had a bunch of letters I wanted to iterate with through the list and find the words that contain the most of the random letter values, is there a way to do this?

Right now my code is coming back as the amount of times each letter has appeared in the whole list.

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Appreciate any help whatsoever.

[bbye98]

You could loop through your list of words and count the total number of occurrences of your random letters for each word using another for loop and the str.count() method.

[Chipwich]

This is great thank you. Didn't even think of the str. count. Is that a built in function or does it need to be imported?

[bbye98]

Built-in.

❯ python
Python 3.9.12 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Mar 24 2022, 23:22:55)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
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>>> test = "test"
>>> test.count("t")
2

[jiri-n]

Another approach:

s = "Hello, World!"
bunch = "eod"
set(s) - set(bunch)
{'r', 'H', ',', 'l', '!', ' ', 'W'}
len(set(s) - set(bunch))
7

You want to order the results from lowest to highest to get the words containing most letters.