In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, c james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> sample = {'t':True, 'f':False} >>>> 't' in sample == True >False > >Why is this?
http://docs.python.org/lib/comparisons.html "Comparisons can be chained arbitrarily; for example, x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, except that y is evaluated only once [ ... ] Two more operations with the same syntactic priority, "in" and "not in", are supported only by sequence types" So: 't' in sample == True is equivalent to: 't' in sample and sample == True and obviously: >>> sample == True False -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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