check if the string equals the first letters of a list of words

Question

I am confused about a simple task

the user will give me a string and my program will check if this string equals the first letters of a list of words ( like this example)

>>> html_attr = ["onerror","onload"] >>> example_task(html_attr,"on") ["onerror","onload"] >>> example_task(html_attr,"one") ["onerror"]

should I use fuzzywuzzy here or what ?

thanks

matszwecja · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-28 14:59:33Z

No need for some weird libraries, Python has a nice builtin str function called startswith that does just that.

def example_task(words, beginning): return [w for w in words if w.startswith(beginning)]

Fuzzywuzzy would come in handy if you don't want an exact match.

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