How to check if one of the following items is in a list?

Question

I\'m trying to find a short way to see if any of the following items is in a list, but my first attempt does not work. Besides writing a function to accomplish this, is the

Answer 1

1 line without list comprehensions.

>>> any(map(lambda each: each in [2,3,4], [1,2]))
True
>>> any(map(lambda each: each in [2,3,4], [1,5]))
False
>>> any(map(lambda each: each in [2,3,4], [2,4]))
True