"in" for dicts (was: Python 2.1 function attributes)

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> Nobody searches phone books or Webster's
> "backwards" in real life.

Indeed! If I were to ask my colleague "Is the word 'bamboozle'
used anywhere in a definition in Webster's dictionary?" the
answer would probably be "Buggered if I know."

Which leads us to what the semantics of
"x in dict" should obviously be:

>>> if x in dict:
...   print "boo:
<stdin>, line 1: BuggeredIfIKnowError

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