[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)

[Tim Peters]

[Guido]
> But the satisfaction that spelling "has_key" as "in" gives me suggests
> that there's more potential to it.

[Greg Ewing]
> I thought you'd always argued against this before, on
> the grounds that the convenience wasn't worth the
> inconsistency. Are you starting to change your mind?

This one's a done deal; it was released in 2.2:

>>> 2 in {2: 3}
1
>>>

Similarly, "for k in dict" is like "for k in dict.iterkeys()" in 2.2.  Guido
never changes his mind <wink>.