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why not "'in' in 'in'"?

Grant Griffin not.this at seebelow.org
Thu Jun 13 13:09:46 EDT 2002 
In article <mailman.1023984257.8048.python-list at python.org>, "Mark says...
>
>> That's not a bad suggestion, Mark, but if I did that I guess I 
>> would be forever wondering if I was testing whether the first one 
>> was in the  second or the second one was in the first.
>
>Since you insist on torturing yourself, then, why not name the function:
>
>	def is_the_second_in_the_first(a, b):
>        ...
>
>;-)

Naw, you got me all wrong.  If torture was what I was after, I'd use lambda and
not name it anything at all:

   >>> subject = 'spam, eggs, sausage, spam'
   >>> eggs = 'eggs'
   >>> if lambda x, y:y.find(x) >= 0(eggs, subject):
   ...    print 'eggs is in subject'
   ...
   eggs is in subject

or-better-yet,-write-it-in-perl-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2

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