If list1 has any items of list2

Question

Assume we have the following two lists,

list1 = ['text_svm_a', 'football_04', 'nice_sensor']

list2 = ['svm', 'sensor']

filtered_list = [item for item in list1 if item_contains_any_of_items_in_list2]

any help on writing item_contains_any_of_items_in_list2 is really appreciated.

Note: Both lists could be large so I don't want to hard code each condition.

Answer 1

You can use any :

filtered_list = [item for item in list1 if any(x in item for x in list2)]
# ['text_svm_a', 'nice_sensor']