On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:36 PM, inkhorn<matt.dub...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > For one of my projects, I came across the need to check if one of many > items from a list of strings could be found in a long string. I came > up with a pretty quick helper function to check this, but I just want > to find out if there's something a little more elegant than what I've > cooked up. The helper function follows: > > def list_items_in_string(list_items, string): > for item in list_items: > if item in string: > return True > return False > > So if you define a list x = ['Blah','Yadda','Hoohoo'] and a string y = > 'Yip yip yippee Blah' and you run list_items_in_string(x, y), it > should return True. > > Any ideas how to make that function look nicer? :)
any(substr in y for substr in x) Note that any() was added in Python 2.5 Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
