30-seconds-of-code/includes_any.md

title, tags

title	tags
includes_any	list,intermediate

Returns True if any the elements in values are included in lst, False otherwise.

Check if any value in values is contained in lst using a for loop, returning 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