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

In python 3 we can start make use of the unpack asterisk. Given two lists:

bool(len({*a} & {*b}))

Edit: incorporate alkanen's suggestion