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

Simple.

_new_list = []
for item in a:
    if item in b:
        _new_list.append(item)
    else:
        pass