How to check if any item from a list of strings is in a big string?

[Pablo Torres N.]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 22:07, Steven
D'Aprano<steven at remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:05 -0700, inkhorn wrote:
>
>> def list_items_in_string(list_items, string):
>>     for item in list_items:
>>         if item in string:
>>             return True
>>     return False
> ...
>> Any ideas how to make that function look nicer? :)
>
> Change the names. Reverse the order of the arguments. Add a docstring.
>

Why reverse the order of the arguments? Is there a design principle there?

I always make a mess out of the order of my arguments...

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Pablo Torres N.