__lt__ slowing the "in" operator even if not called

[Emanuele Aina]

Maric Michaud continuò:

> > But I hoped in a more exaustive answer: why python has to do this
> > lookup when the __lt__ method is not involved at all?
>
> It is not the case, that's what my program shows :
>
> <class '__main__.StateEQ'>
>
> in operator at the beginning of list: 173
> in operator at the end of list: 28249 <- here
>
> converting to dict : 79
> in operator for a dict for 60000 elements: 14
>
> <class '__main__.StateLTEQ'>
>
> in operator at the beginning of list: 202
> in operator at the end of list: 30472 <- and here

It is very obvious that these two have similiar timings, as both call
__eq__.

I asked why the State and StateLT don't give similar results, but
StateLT is noticeably slower.