# test_string = "XAT--12C-S" # print(bool([i for i in ["XAT--12A-S", "XAT--12B-S"] if(i in test_string)])) # print(test_string[len(test_string)-1]) myFirstDict = { "den": {}, "ten": {}, "ben": {} } query = "ten" if query in myFirstDict: print(True) for i in range(10): print(i)