"max baseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > im checking if a number is in all 5 of the other lists and when > i use the and command it seems to just be checking if it's in a > least > one of the others,
> for num in l2 and l3 and l4 and l5 and l6: # here seems to be the Try: if num in I2 and num in I3 and num in I4 and num in I5 and num in I6: In your case you are 'and'ing the lists which is a boolean expression and because of how Python does short circuit evaluation it returns the last list >>> a = [1,2] >>> b = [3,4] >>> a and b [3, 4] so for n in a and b: is the same as for n in b: which iterates over b... HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
