"Terry Carroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > if Y in X: > > Which is much more elegant/pythonic; but I didn't know you could do > that > with one string over another. For some reason, I had thought Y > would have > to exactly match one iterable element in X (e.g., one element of a > list, > or one character of a string) for that to work.
FWIW I believe that 'in' did only work for single characters up until version 2.X so your ideas may have been based on experiences with an earlier Python version. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
