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[TheFlyingDutchman]

>
> Actually there was. The OP's claim
> | There are a million situations where you can have an item not be in
> | a list and it is not an exception situation.
>
> ...is just plain nonsense. zzbbaadd neither does understand exceptions
> nor what they are used for in Python. An item not being in a list is
> an exception situation /by definition/.

It won't be /by definition/ in my fork of Python 3, which I am pleased
to announce now, is called Python 3.01 while in development, and will
be known as Python 3000 or Python 3K when it gets to a productional
release. So in regard to Python 3000, your statement will be plain
nonsense.