> Well I was reading too fast (as usual) - you wanted to print 'yes'
> only if 5 is not in a sub list but you want to look in all the sub
> lists and yet print 'yes' only once???
Oops, me too, so in that case....
> So in long hand lets reverse the logic and make sure we print 'yes'
> only once
>
> >>> yes = 0
> >>> for num in x:
> ... if 5 not in num:
> ... if not yes:
> ... print 'yes'
> ... yes = 1
> ...
> yes
Or alternatively use the else construct of a for loop...
for num in x:
if 5 in x:
break
else: print 'yes'
The else only gets executed if the loop runs to completion
without a break...
HTH
Alan G.
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