How to check whether a list have specific value exist or not?

[Sidharth Kuruvila]

Hi Prabha,

if 3 in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
    print "yes"


Python is an amazing language if you understand that it is actually
quite a bit different from php. The python tutorial is pretty good, I
suggest you go through it.


On Apr 9, 2005 3:07 PM, Michael Spencer <mahs at telcopartners.com> wrote:
> praba kar wrote:
> > Dear All
> >      In Php we can find in_array() function
> > which function is mainly useful to check
> > whether a specific value is exist in the array
> > or not.
> >
> >    But In python In cannot find any function
> > like that.  I want to check a list have specific
> > value or not. So If any one know regarding this
> > mail me
> >
> > with regards
> > PRabahar
> >
> >
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> No need to ask this list, ask the built-in one:
> 
>   >>> dir(list)
>   ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__',
> '__delslice__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__',
> '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__',
> '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__',
> '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__',
> '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__str__', 'append',
> 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
> 
> A minute of two experimenting, would then lead you to:
> 
>   >>> l = [1,2,3,4,5]
>   >>> l.index(3)
>   2
>   >>>
> 
> Note that all indexing in Python is 0-based
> 
> Michael
> 
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