Python check if any items of a tuple are in a string

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Check to ensure a string does not contain multiple values

So guys. If i have

example = "1", "2", "3"

How would i check if any of the items are in a string.

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '12 at 18:37

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if any(s in some_string for s in example):
    # at least one of the elements is a substring of some_string

answered Sep 28 '12 at 18:37

Andrew Clark

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This looks like the most "Pythonic" way of doing it. – Utku Zihnioglu Sep 28 '12 at 18:39
What would "s" be in your code. (Fairly new to python.) – user1705279 Sep 28 '12 at 18:41
@user1705279: It’s the variable in the generator expression. It represents every string in the `example` tuple. – Sep 28 '12 at 18:42
networks = ( ("AAA", "AAA"), ("BBB", "BBB"), ) some_string="AAA" for item in networks: if some_string in item: print "Yes" break – reza_khalafi Apr 08 '23 at 07:08

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '12 at 18:39

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One example:

>>> example = "1", 2, "3"
>>> str in [type(entry) for entry in example]

will return True if there was an str in the tuple.

answered Sep 28 '12 at 18:39

pram

I think the question was to check whether they’re in a string, not whether any of them is a string. – Sep 28 '12 at 18:41

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