On Apr 3, 9:00 am, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 3, 8:44 am, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Apr 3, 12:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What's the neatest and/or most efficient way of testing if one of a > > > A different approach: > > > >>> words = ["he", "sh", "bla"] > > >>> name = "blah" > > >>> True in (word in name for word in words) > > > True > > > >>> name = "bling" > > >>> True in (word in name for word in words) > > > False > > > Perhaps not as obvious or readable as Jeff's example, but is > > essentially doing the same thing using generator syntax. > > That's pretty :)
It's even prettier in 2.5: any(word in name for word in words) George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
