Contains Common Strings | Dataford Interview Questions

Given two lists of strings, return if list 1 contains anything in list 2.

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Input and Output

Implement def contains_any(list1, list2):. Return True if at least one string appears in both lists, otherwise return False. Matching is exact and case-sensitive. Duplicate strings do not change the result.

Constraints

Each list contains 0 to 10^4 strings.
Each string contains 1 to 100 characters.
Matching is exact and case-sensitive.
Duplicate strings do not affect the result.

Function Signature

def contains_any(list1, list2):

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