I am out of trial and error again Lists

[Seymore4Head]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:30:37 -0400, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:

name="123-xyz-abc" 
a=range(10)
b=list(range(10))
c=str(list(range(10)))
print ("a",(a))
print ("b",(b))
print ("c",(c))

for x in name:
    if x in a:
        print ("a",(x))      
    if x in b:
        print ("b",(x))  
    if x in c:
        print ("c",(x))

B is type list and C is type str.
I guess I am still a little too thick.  I would expect b and c to
work. 
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