Compare two lists of different strings

Question

I would like to compare two lists of strings, but the items in the first one will be part of the items of the second one. I give you an example:

list01 = ['test_item01','test_item02','truc_item03']
list02 = ['_item01','truc']

I would like to have something like

if list02 not in list01:
    #do that

What I really want it's that 'test_item01' and '_item01' are interpreted as the same like they have a part in common.

I tried different things but nothing works.

Answer 1

if not all(any(x in y for y in list01) for x in list02):
    print 'do that'

note that the functionality of all/any here guarantees good performance. Once a single superstring is found for an element of list02 , the inner loop represented by any stops, and once an element of list02 is found that has no superstring, we stop checking the rest of list02

Answer 2

This can be done also using sets intersection:

def intersect(a, b):
    return list(set(a) & set(b))

iSec = intersect(list01, list02)
if len(iSec) == len(list02):
    print 'contains'
else:
    print 'not contains'