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[Python-Dev] Re: Sets: elt in dict, lst.include

[Python-Dev] Re: Sets: elt in dict, lst.includeM.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:00:28 +0100
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> > It's come up before. The problem with it is that it's not quite obvious
> > whether it is 'if key in dict' or 'if value in dict'.
> 
> you forgot "if (key, value) in dict"
> 
> on the other hand, it's not quite obvious that "list.sort"
> doesn't return the sorted list, "print >>None" prints to
> standard output, "except KeyError, ValueError" doesn't
> catch a ValueError exception, etc, etc, etc.
> 
> (nor that it's "has_key" and "hasattr", and not "has_key"
> and "has_attr" or "haskey" and "hasattr" ;-)
> 
> let's just say that "in" is the same thing as "has_key",
> and be done with it.

+1 all the way :)

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