How to check if a string is a substring of items in a list of strings

You can use a for loop to iterate through the list of strings, and then use the in keyword to check if the string is a substring of the current item in the list. Here is an example:

Using a for loop to check if a string is a substring of items in a list of strings in Python

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Alternatively you can use any() with a generator expression which is more pythonic and better performant

Using a generator expression to check if a string is a substring of items in a list of strings in Python

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This will return True if the string is a substring of any of the items in the list, and False otherwise.