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[Dave Angel]

On 08/22/2012 12:17 AM, Ian Foote wrote:
> Oops, hopefully this with indent correctly:
>
> def all_in(string, substrings):
>     for substring in substrings:
>         if substring not in string:
>             return False
>     return True

The POP's question was ambiguous (did he want to match any of the
substrings, or all of the substrings), but his example code:
   

("a" in "adfbdfc")  or ( "b" in "adfbdfc") or ("c" in "adfbdfc" )

implements the opposite sense of what you have.  So perhaps he'd want:


def any_in(string, substrings):
    for substring in substrings:
        if substring in string:
              return True:
    return False


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DaveA