How to improve this code?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 03:08:59 Oltmans wrote:

> match=[1,2,3,4,5]
>
> def elementsPresent(aList):
> 	result=False
> 	if not aList:
> 		return False
> 	for e in aList:
> 		if e in match:
> 			result=True
> 		else:
> 			result = False
> 	return result
>  elementsPresent([6,7,8,9,5]) # should return True because 5 is
> present in list named match.

What are you trying to do?
Your code will only work if the last item in aList is in the match global.
Is this what you want?
or do you want:

(i)  a True if All the elements in match are in aList, else False?
(ii) a True if any one or more of the members of match  are in aList?
(iii)  Something else?

- Hendrik