Max Noel wrote:
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> While we're on that topic, is there a particular reason why 'in',
> in a dict context, searches the keys instead of doing the logical thing
> and searching the values?
animals = { 'cat': "a cuddly little mammal who likes to eat birds",
'dog': "man's best friend, also a mammal and which also can eat birds",
'parrot': "a bird, favoured by Monty Python"}
What is more natural?
if parrot in animals: ....
or
if "a bird, favoured by Monty Python" in animals: ...
André
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