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

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?
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.