Azolex cretin at des.alpes.ch
Mon Apr 10 07:41:59 EDT 2006

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WENDUM Denis 47.76.11 (agent) wrote:
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> While testing recursive algoritms dealing with generic lists I stumbled 
> on infinite loops which were triggered by the fact that (at least for my 
> version of Pyton) characters contain themselves.

Note that the empty string is contained in all strings, including itself.

 >>> bool('')
False
 >>> '' in ''
True

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