Question

is there a way to do something like this?

if ['hel','ell','orl'] in 'hello world' :

I want to see if all of these strings occur in the word. If possible in a shorter way than completely writing a multiline foor loop.

Answer 1

You could do:

if all( x in 'hello world' for x in ['hel','ell','orl'] ):
    print "Found all of them"

The built-in functions all and any are useful for this kind of thing.