[Python-ideas] a in x or in y

[Carl Meyer]

On 02/12/2014 02:12 PM, Ram Rachum wrote:
> What do you think about adding this to Python:
> 
>     'whatever a long string' in x or in y
> 
> I've often wished for this because the current way is quite verbose:
> 
>     'whatever a long string' in x or 'whatever a long string' in y

Except you'd never actually do that, you'd just put the long string in a
variable. Or the other option:

    any('whatever a long string' in i for i in [x, y])

(And 'all' similarly covers the 'and' case.)

Carl