How to check if one of the following items is in a list?

Question

I\'m trying to find a short way to see if any of the following items is in a list, but my first attempt does not work. Besides writing a function to accomplish this, is the

Answer 1

Maybe a bit more lazy:

a = [1,2,3,4]
b = [2,7]

print any((True for x in a if x in b))