python - Get first list index containing sub-string?

Question

For lists, the method list.index(x) returns the index in the list of the first item whose value is x. But if I want to look inside the list items, and not just at the whole items, how do I make the most Pythoninc method for this?

For example, with

l = ['the cat ate the mouse',
     'the tiger ate the chicken',
     'the horse ate the straw']

this function would return 1 provided with the argument tiger.

Answer 1

A non-slicky method:

def index_containing_substring(the_list, substring):
    for i, s in enumerate(the_list):
        if substring in s:
              return i
    return -1