Python: find a list within members of another list(in order)

Question

If I have this:

a=\'abcdefghij\'
b=\'de\'

Then this finds b in a:

b in a => True

Is there a way of doi

Answer 1

I suspect there are more pythonic ways of doing it, but at least it gets the job done:

l=list('abcdefgh')
pat=list('de')

print pat in l # Returns False
print any(l[i:i+len(pat)]==pat for i in xrange(len(l)-len(pat)+1))