On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > In [4]: 'cd' in s1 or 'cd' in s2 or 'cd' in s3 > Out[4]: False > > In [5]: 'cd' in s1+s2+s3 > Out[5]: True
That's why I said it works for *character* in string, not *string* in string. If your first operand is a single character (which in Python is still of type 'str'), then the equivalency holds. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list