In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Farel wrote: > Which is Faster in Python and Why?
``if not b in m`` looks at each element of `m` until it finds `b` in it and stops then. Assuming `b` is in `m`, otherwise all elements of `m` are "touched". ``if m.count(b) > 0`` will always goes through all elements of `m` in the `count()` method. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list