Using "or" to find if any of a string is in a row in a csv file

Question

example file (.csv): in row[0] there is "d e f b c c c a"

file=open("example_file.csv","r")

column=""

for row in file:
    if "a" or "b" or "c" in row[0]:
        column+=row

I'm trying to figure out a way that if the file has a,b or c in the row it will print only the a's b's or c's

The question this is a duplicate of uses `==`, but the `in` operator works the same way. — Blckknght, Mar 30 '20 at 06:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '20 at 06:38

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You can use the any function:

if (any(x in row[0] for x in ("a", "b", "c"))):
    column += row

answered Mar 30 '20 at 06:38

Jan

Or `any(x in row[0] for x in 'abc')` – alec Mar 30 '20 at 06:40
@alec: I guess, `a`, `b` and `c` are only placeholders so iterating over a string does not make much sense. – Jan Mar 30 '20 at 07:13
I ended up using 3 if statements for "a" "b" and "c" separately. It was kinda time sensitive but thanks for all the answers. Im going to update my code with them – FATCAT47 Mar 31 '20 at 08:32

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