"Mr.SpOOn" <mr.spoo...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.492.1258380560.2873.python-l...@python.org...
> In [13]: ('b3' and '5') in l or ('3' and 'b3') in l > Out[13]: True For anything more than the simplest cases, you might want use sets. That might be the correct data type from the start, depending on whether the ordering is important anywhere. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list