Two additional things beyond the important lesson to always time things: 1. Be careful with operator precedence. In this case, people got lucky:
not b in m
has the precedence:
not (b in m)
2. Python has a "not in" operator:
b not in m
which is the clearest and fastest way to test for non-membership in a
container.
Tim Delaney
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