Efficient way of testing for substring being one of a set?

[George Sakkis]

On Apr 3, 9:00 am, Jeff <jeffo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 8:44 am, Ant <ant... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 3, 12:37 pm, tinn... at isbd.co.uk wrote:
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> > > What's the neatest and/or most efficient way of testing if one of a
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> > A different approach:
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> > >>> words = ["he", "sh", "bla"]
> > >>> name = "blah"
> > >>> True in (word in name for word in words)
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> > True
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> > >>> name = "bling"
> > >>> True in (word in name for word in words)
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> > False
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> > Perhaps not as obvious or readable as Jeff's example, but is
> > essentially doing the same thing using generator syntax.
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> That's pretty :)

It's even prettier in 2.5:

any(word in name for word in words)

George