python - Return True if all characters in a string are in another string

Question

Alright so for this problem I am meant to be writing a function that returns True if a given string contains only characters from another given string. So if I input "bird" as the first string and "irbd" as the second, it would return True, but if I used "birds" as the first string and "irdb" as the second it would return False. My code so far looks like this:

def only_uses_letters_from(string1,string2):
"""Takes two strings and returns true if the first string only contains characters also in the second string.

string,string -> string"""
if string1 in string2:
    return True
else:
    return False

When I try to run the script it only returns True if the strings are in the exact same order or if I input only one letter ("bird" or "b" and "bird" versus "bird" and "irdb").

Answer 1

This is a perfect use case of sets. The following code will solve your problem:

def only_uses_letters_from(string1, string2):
   """Check if the first string only contains characters also in the second string."""
   return set(string1) <= set(string2)