title: Fastest way to check if a string contains specific characters in any of the items in a list
body: <p>What is the fastest way to check if a string contains some characters from any items of a list?</p>
  
  <p>Currently, I'm using this method:</p>
  
  <pre><code>lestring = "Text123"
  
  lelist = ["Text", "foo", "bar"]
  
  for x in lelist:
      if lestring.count(x):
          print 'Yep. "%s" contains characters from "%s" item.' % (lestring, x)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any way to do it without iteration (which will make it faster I suppose.)?</p>