30-seconds-of-code/snippets/includes_any.md

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
includes_any	list,intermediate	2020-03-15T12:54:08+02:00	2020-11-02T19:28:05+02:00

Checks if any element in values is included in lst.

• Check if any value in values is contained in lst using a for loop.
• Return True if any one value is found, False otherwise.

def includes_any(lst, values):
  for v in values:
    if v in lst:
      return True
  return False

includes_any([1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 9]) # True
includes_any([1, 2, 3, 4], [8, 9]) # False