Kent Johnson kent3737 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 26 10:08:23 EST 2005

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Klaus Neuner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> what is the fastest way to determine whether list l (with
> len(l)>30000) contains a certain element?

If you can use a set or dict instead of a list this test will be much faster.

Kent

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