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Searching for an element

All built-in collections in Python implement a way to check element membership using in.

List

alist = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
5 in alist   # True
10 in alist  # False

Tuple

atuple = ('0', '1', '2', '3', '4')
4 in atuple    # False
'4' in atuple  # True

String

astring = 'i am a string'
'a' in astring   # True
'am' in astring  # True
'I' in astring   # False

Set

aset = {(10, 10), (20, 20), (30, 30)}
(10, 10) in aset  # True
10 in aset        # False

Dict

dict is a bit special: the normal in only checks the keys. If you want to search in values you need to specify it. The same if you want to search for key-value pairs.

adict = {0: 'a', 1: 'b', 2: 'c', 3: 'd'}
1 in adict                 # True   - implicitly searches in keys
'a' in adict               # False
2 in adict.keys()          # True   - explicitly searches in keys
'a' in adict.values()      # True   - explicitly searches in values
(0, 'a') in adict.items()  # True   - explicitly searches key/value pairs


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