Python: A couple of methods to check whether a string contains any or all of the characters from a second string.

stringContainsCharacters.py

def stringContainsAnyCharacters(string, characters):
    """
    Check whether 'string' contains any characters from string 'characters'.

    :param string: String to check for wanted characters
    :type string: str
    :param characters: String of characters to be found 
    :type characters: str
    :return: True if any characters are found, False otherwise
    :rtype: bool
    """
    assert type(string) is str
    assert type(characters) is str
    return True in [character in string for character in characters]

def stringContainsAllCharacters(string, characters):
    """
    Check whether 'string' contains all characters from string 'characters'.

    :param string: String to check for wanted characters
    :type string: str
    :param characters: String of characters to be found
    :type characters: str
    :return: True if all characters are found, False otherwise
    :rtype: bool
    """
    assert type(string) is str
    assert type(characters) is str
    return False not in [character in string for character in characters]


if __name__ == '__main__':
    assert stringContainsAnyCharacters('*.py', '*?[]')
    assert not stringContainsAnyCharacters('file.txt', '*?[]')
    assert stringContainsAllCharacters('43221', '123')
    assert not stringContainsAllCharacters('134', '123')