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I need to test strings to determine if one of a list of chars is in the string. A simple example would be to test strings to determine if they have a vowel (aeiouAEIOU) present.<br /><br />I was hopeful that there was a built-in method that operated similar to startswith where I could pass a tuple of chars to be tested, but I could not find such a method.<br /><br />Which of the following techniques is most Pythonic or are there better ways to perform this type of match?<br /><br /># long and hard coded but short circuits as soon as match found<br />if 'a' in word or 'e' in word or 'i' in word or 'u' in word or ... :<br /><br />-OR- <br /><br /># flexible, but no short circuit on first match<br />if [ char for char in word if char in 'aeiouAEIOU' ]:<br /><br />-OR-<br /><br /># flexible, but no short circuit on first match<br />if set( word ).intersection( 'aeiouAEIOU' ):<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Malcolm<br />
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