New submission from João Bernardo <[email protected]>:
Hi, I'm working on a class which implements the __contains__ method but the way
I would like it to work is by generating an object that will be evaluated later.
It'll return a custom object instead of True/False
class C:
def __contains__(self, x):
return "I will evaluate this thing later... Don't bother now"
but when I do:
>>> 1 in C()
True
It seems to evaluate the answer with bool!
Reading the docs
(http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/expressions.html#membership-test-details)
It says:
"`x in y` is true if and only if `y.__contains__(x)` is true."
It looks like the docs doesn't match the code and the code is trying to mimic
the behavior of lists/tuples where "x in y" is the same as
any(x is e or x == e for e in y)
and always yield True or False.
There is a reason why it is that way?
Thanks!
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation, Interpreter Core
messages: 150283
nosy: JBernardo, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: __contains__ method behavior
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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