Check substring match of a word in a list of words

Question

I want to check if a word is in a list of words.

word = \"with\"
word_list = [\"without\", \"bla\", \"foo\", \"bar\"]

I tried if word

Answer 1

You could do:

found = any(word in item for item in wordlist)

It checks each word for a match and returns true if any are matches