Check if list items contains substrings from another list

Question

I have a lists:

my_list = [\'abc-123\', \'def-456\', \'ghi-789\', \'abc-456\', \'def-111\', \'qwe-111\']

bad = [\'abc\', \'def\']

and want

Answer 1

In [4]: filter(lambda item: any(x in item for x in bad), my_list)
Out[4]: ['abc-123', 'def-456', 'abc-456', 'def-111']

or

In [13]: [item for item in my_list if any(x in item for x in bad)]
Out[13]: ['abc-123', 'def-456', 'abc-456', 'def-111']