prefix matching

[Christian Gudrian]

Hello, there!

Given a list with strings.

What is the most pythonic way to check if a given string starts with one of
the strings in that list?

I started by composing a regular expression pattern which consists of all
the strings in the list separated by "|" in a for loop. Then I used that
pattern to do a regexp match.

Seems rather complicated to me. Any alternatives?

Christian