Python programming

[Dan Stromberg]

If it's a big list and you're checking multiple times, you're probably
better off converting the list to a set, and using "in" on the set.  Once
you have your list converted to a set, you can update both quickly.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Maurice Shih <rockitout117 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear python-list at python.org,
> Thank you for taking the time to listen to my request. I'm a beginner
> programmer and I se python 2.6. I am making a program that needs a command
> that can check if a value is in a list. For example to check whether 5 is in
> [2, 6, 5,]. Thank you for hearing my request.
> Maurice Shih
>
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