checking if an object IS in a list

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Peter Otten:
> PS: Take these numbers with a grain of salt, they vary a lot between runs.

Another possibility :-)
from itertools import imap
id(x) in imap(id, items)


>If you want efficiency you should use a dictionary instead of the list anyway:

I agree, but sometimes you have few items to look for, so building the
whole dict (that requires memory too) may be a waste of time.

In theory this may be faster to build, but in practice you need a
benchmark:
ids = set(imap(id, items))
followed by:
id(x) in ids

Bye,
bearophile