re.search over a list

[Pat]

While I can use a for loop looking for a match on a list, I was 
wondering if there was a one-liner way.

In particular, one of my RE's looks like this '^somestring$' so I can't 
just do this: re.search( '^somestring$', str( mylist ) )

I'm not smart enough (total newbie) to code up a generator expression 
and I was wondering if I'm missing something obvious.

I love succinct but clearly understandable code.

thx!