Search strings in list containing specific letters in random order

Question

I am writing a code in Python 2.7 in which I have defined a list of strings. I then want to search this list\'s elements for a set of letters. These letters must be in rando

Answer 1

for item in wordlist:
    for character in letters:
        if character in item:
            print item
            break

Answer 2

Here goes your solution:

for item in wordlist:
  b = False
  for c in letters:
    b = b | (item.find(c) != -1)
  if b:
    print item

Answer 3

Using sets and the in syntax to check.

wordlist = ['mississippi','miss','lake','que']

letters = set('aqk')

for word in wordlist:
   if word in letters:
       print word

Answer 4

[word for word in wordlist if any(letter in word for letter in 'aqk')]

Answer 5

It would be easy using set():

wordlist = ['mississippi','miss','lake','que']

letters = set('aqk')

for word in wordlist:
    if letters & set(word):
        print word

Output:

lake
que

Note: The & operator does an intersection between the two sets.