Multiple substrings in string python within variable check

Question

I have the following code:

check = "red" in string_to_explore

How can I replicate it for multiple substrings?

I tried with:

check = "red|blue" in string_to_explore

but doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Python str methods doesn't accept regex pattern, for that use re module:

import re

text = "foo foo blue foo"
pattern = re.compile(r"red|blue")
check = bool(pattern.search(text))
print(check) # True