Grant Edwards wrote: > Using xrange as somebody else suggested is also insane.
Sorry about that, I somehow got the misguided notion that xrange defines its own __contains__, so that it would be about the same speed as using comparison operators directly. I figured the OP might have a better reason for wanting to use range() than his post mentioned -- perhaps the range to check was being passed from a function, and it would be easier to pass an object than a tuple of lower and upper bound -- but since xrange does looping for a membership test, my suggestion was indeed insane. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
