Python Count the number of substring in list from other string list without duplicates

Question

I have two list:

main_list = [\'Smith\', \'Smith\', \'Roger\', \'Roger-Smith\', \'42\']
master_list = [\'Smith\', \'Roger\']

I want to coun

Answer 1

What about this

main_list = ['Smith', 'Smith', 'Roger', 'Roger-Smith', '42']
master_list = ['Smith', 'Roger']

print len([word for word in main_list if any(mw in word for mw in master_list)])