一个惊人的快速方法是使用set:

a = ['a', 'b', 'c']
str = "a123"
if set(a) & set(str):
    print("some of the strings found in str")
else:
    print("no strings found in str")

如果a不包含任何多字符值(在这种情况下使用上面列出的any)，则此方法有效。如果是这样，将a指定为字符串会更简单:a = 'abc'。

python文档中推荐的regex模块支持这一点

words = {'he', 'or', 'low'}
p = regex.compile(r"\L<name>", name=words)
m = p.findall('helloworld')
print(m)

输出:

['he', 'low', 'or']

实现的一些细节:link

a = ['a', 'b', 'c']
str =  "a123"

a_match = [True for match in a if match in str]

if True in a_match:
  print "some of the strings found in str"
else:
  print "no strings found in str"

的元素上进行迭代。

a = ['a', 'b', 'c']
str = "a123"
found_a_string = False
for item in a:    
    if item in str:
        found_a_string = True

if found_a_string:
    print "found a match"
else:
    print "no match found"

在另一个字符串列表中查找多个字符串的一种紧凑方法是使用set.intersection。这比大型集或列表中的列表理解执行得快得多。

>>> astring = ['abc','def','ghi','jkl','mno']
>>> bstring = ['def', 'jkl']
>>> a_set = set(astring)  # convert list to set
>>> b_set = set(bstring)
>>> matches = a_set.intersection(b_set)
>>> matches
{'def', 'jkl'}
>>> list(matches) # if you want a list instead of a set
['def', 'jkl']
>>>

为了提高速度，我会使用这样的函数:

def check_string(string, substring_list):
    for substring in substring_list:
        if substring in string:
            return True
    return False