"Tino Dai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> 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
You could use sets and check the intersection:
dbs = set(['oracle','mysql','postgres','infomix','access'])
test = set(['oracle','mysql','dbd'])
if dbs.intersection(test):
HTH,
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