testing if a list contains a sublist

[Johannes]

Am 16.08.2011 09:44, schrieb Peter Otten:
> Johannes wrote:
> 
>> what is the best way to check if a given list (lets call it l1) is
>> totally contained in a second list (l2)?
>>
>> for example:
>> l1 = [1,2], l2 = [1,2,3,4,5] -> l1 is contained in l2
>> l1 = [1,2,2,], l2 = [1,2,3,4,5] -> l1 is not contained in l2
>> l1 = [1,2,3], l2 = [1,3,5,7] -> l1 is not contained in l2
>>
>> my problem is the second example, which makes it impossible to work with
>> sets insteads of lists. But something like set.issubset for lists would
>> be nice.
> 
> Would [1, 2, 1] be contained in [1, 1, 2]? You have received an answer that 
> assumes yes and another that assume no.
> 

yes it should be contained in the other one. I just work with sorted
lists, so i did not think about this case.

geatz Johannes