I have a couple of lists which vary in length, and I would like to compare each of their items with an integer, and if any one of the items is above said integer, it breaks
Don't use list as a variable name, it shadows the builtin list(). There is a builtin function called any which is useful here
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if any(x>70 for x in the_list):
The part inbetween the ( and ) is called a generator expression
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