Newbie Q on searching lists

[Kenny Tilton]

Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Friday 22 November 2002 10:21 pm,  Kenny Tilton wrote:
> 
>>The semantics I am coding happen to throw an error if a certain element 
>>is found in a list, so i want to code:
>>
>>    if calculators.index[thisCalculator]:
>>       raise CircularDependency, thisCalculator
> 
> 
> Did you mean this?
> 
> if thisCalculator in calculators:
>         raise CircularDependency(thisCalculator)

sweet. thx. for the heads up on custom exceptions as well. I was faking 
that bit (as you could tell <g>), just wanted to put up a more readable 
example.

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  kenny tilton
  clinisys, inc
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