Check if substring is in a list of strings?

Question

I have found some answers to this question before, but they seem to be obsolete for the current Python versions (or at least they don\'t work for me).

I want to chec

Answer 1

You can import any from __builtin__ in case it was replaced by some other any:

>>> from  __builtin__ import any as b_any
>>> lst = ['yellow', 'orange', 'red']
>>> word = "or"
>>> b_any(word in x for x in lst)
True

Note that in Python 3 __builtin__ has been renamed to builtins.