Python "member of" function

[Rene Pijlman]

brianlum at gmail.com:
>I was wondering if anyone knew of a built in Python function that will
>check if an item is a member of a list, i.e., if item i is a member of
>list l.

>>> 1 in [1,3,4]
True
>>> 2 in [1,3,4]
False

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René Pijlman