Python: find a list within members of another list(in order)

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I suspect there are more pythonic ways of doing it, but at least it gets the job done:

l=list('abcdefgh')
pat=list('de')

print pat in l # Returns False
print any(l[i:i+len(pat)]==pat for i in xrange(len(l)-len(pat)+1))

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