Python: How to check a string for substrings from a list?

Question

How can I check a string for substrings contained in a list, like in Check if a string contains an element from a list (of strings), but in Python?

Accepted Answer

Try this test:

```
any(substring in string for substring in substring_list)
```

It will return `True` if any of the substrings in `substring_list` is contained in `string`.

Note that there is a Python analogue of Marc Gravell's answer in the linked question:

```
from itertools import imap
any(imap(string.__contains__, substring_list)) 
```

In Python 3, you can use `map` directly instead:

```
any(map(string.__contains__, substring_list))
```

Probably the above version using a generator expression is more clear though.

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