How to make it shorter (Pythonic)?

Question

I have to check a lot of worlds if they are in string... code looks like:

if \"string_1\" in var_string or \"string_2\" in var_string or \"string_3\" in var_stri         


        

Answer 1

>>> import re
>>> string="word1testword2andword3last"
>>> c=re.compile("word1|word2|word3")
>>> c.search(string)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7715d40>
>>> string="blahblah"
>>> c.search(string)
>>>