String contains any character in group?

Question

I have a set of characters: \\,/,?,% etc. I also have a string, lets say \"This is my string % my string ?\"

I want to check if any of the characters are present in

Answer 1

You could use any here.

>>> string = r"/\?%"
>>> test = "This is my string % my string ?"
>>> any(elem in test for elem in string)
True
>>> test2 = "Just a test string"
>>> any(elem in test2 for elem in string)
False