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

This will do it in one line.

>>> a=[2,3,4]
>>> b=[1,2]
>>> bool(sum(map(lambda x: x in b, a)))
True