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Generalizing "in" to pairs of sequences

[Python-Dev] Re: Generalizing "in" to pairs of sequencesEric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Sun, 26 Aug 2001 06:54:37 -0400
Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:
> Your "subsequence" interpretation would conflict with this meaning.
> Here's current behaviour:
> 
>     >>> "ab" in ("ab", "cd")
>     1
>     >>> "ab" in ("a", "b", "c", "d")
>     0
>     >>> (1, 2) in ((0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3))
>     1
>     >>> (1, 2) in (0, 1, 2, 3)
>     0
> 
> "in" cannot have both meanings.

You're right.  But since a string can't be an element of a string, the
case I'm really interested in would still work.
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