Carsten Haese wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:13 -0300, Pablo Ziliani wrote: >> Carsten Haese wrote: >>> Unfortunately, that also matches margarine, mayonnaise, and octopus, >>> just to name a few ;-) >> (and so does the solution you sent before :) > > No, it doesn't. > >>>> s = set(['jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', > ... 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec']) >>>> 'margarine' in s > False >>>> 'mayonnaise' in s > False >>>> 'octopus' in s > False > >> This is fine IMO since the OP didn't specify the opposite. > > True, but my crystal ball tells me that the OP wants exact matches. > (Extrapolating from another post made by the OP earlier today, I'm > guessing he has a list of column names to include in an SQL "order by" > clause, and he wants to check them for validity first.) > Well, as somebody else already pointed out, the OP's query was completely misconceived in the first place, and he would have been better recasting it in a more natural way.
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