Klaus Neuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the fastest way to determine whether list l (with > len(l)>30000) contains a certain element?
"if thecertainelement in l:" is the fastest way unless there are properties of l which you're not telling us about, or unless what you need is not just to determine whether l contains a certain element but rather something different (such as doing the same determination for several elements on an unchanging l). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
