Say I have a list of characters ['h','e','l','l','o'] and I wanted to see if the list of characters match a string 'hello', how would I do this? The list needs to match the characters exactly. I thought about using something like:
hList = ['h','e','l','l','o']
hStr = "Hello"
running = False
if hList in hStr :
running = True
print("This matches!")
but this does not work, how would I do something like this??
You want ''.join(hList) == hStr.
That turns the list into a string, so it can be easily compared to the other string.
In your case you don't seem to care about case, so you can use a case insensitive compare. See How do I do a case insensitive string comparison in Python? for a discussion of this.
Or, another way is the reverse of what the other answer suggests, create a list out of hStr and compare that:
list(hStr) == hList
Which simply compares the lists:
list('Hello') == hList
False
list('hello') == hList
True
Alternative solution is to split the string into array:
list(hStr) == hList
>>> list("hello")
['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']
