How do I shrink this if using regex?

Question

How on earth do i shrink this monstrosity:

I´m using python 3

if "arME" in file or "deDE" in file or "enUS" in file or "esES" in file or "ptBR" in file or "itIT" in file:

Possible duplicate of [Search Multiple Strings (from File) in a file and print the line](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37902523/search-multiple-strings-from-file-in-a-file-and-print-the-line) — Nir Alfasi, Sep 05 '17 at 01:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '17 at 01:17

Typically one would use an alternative regex:

p = re.compile('arME|deDE|enUS|esES|ptBR|itIT')
if p.search(file):
    ...

The A|B in a regex means match either A or B, where A and B are arbitrary regexes. It can be extended to an arbitrary number of regexes.

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