Tino Dai wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am wondering about a short cut to doing this. Let's say that we
> have an array:
>
> dbs= ['oracle','mysql','postgres','infomix','access']
>
> and we wanted to do this:
>
> if 'oracle' in dbs or 'mysql' in dbs or 'bdb' in dbs:
> <... do something ...>
>
> Is there a short way or writing this? Something like
> ('oracle','mysql','bdb') in dbs
I don't think there is a shortcut with lists. You could write
any(db in dbs for db in ('oracle','mysql','bdb'))
which at least lets you use a list for the targets, or
if [ db for db in ('oracle','mysql','bdb') if db in dbs ]:
With sets you can write
dbs= set(['oracle','mysql','postgres','infomix','access'])
if dbs.intersection(('oracle','mysql','bdb')):
Kent
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