is there a better way to check an array?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Probably because at one point lists didn't even have the index() method,
> and when it was suggested and (I believe) Raymond H. added it

the list "index" method has been in Python since, like, forever (early 1991,
according to CVS, which means that it was added about two years before
the first 1.0 alpha was made public...)

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