I have a list of phrases and I am trying to identify keywords in each phrase. Using re.search I am able to find the keywords I am looking for in each phrase. When I use a keyword for goals, it detects the presence of the keyword but does not return it.

Here is an example of what I have tried:

#Keywords I am looking for.

keywords = [‘goalw*’,’although’]

def keyword(text):

matchfound = [key for key in keywords if re.search(r’b’+key+r’b’, text)]

result = []

[result.append(x) for x in matchfound if x not in result]

return result

output = keyword(“His goals were accomplished as expected”)

output

[‘goalw*’]

#I was expecting to see “goals”

#My intention is to apply this code to a dataset with 1000+ rows of phrases.

When I tried compile as outlined in a previous answer (How to return full substring from partial substring match in python as a list?), i get “TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: ‘str’ and ‘int’.”

Thank you.