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How to find "in" in the documentation

tinnews at isbd.co.uk tinnews at isbd.co.uk
Sat Mar 14 07:14:19 EDT 2009 
Colin J. Williams <cjw at ncf.ca> wrote:
> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> >>>>>> tinnews at isbd.co.uk (t) wrote:
> > 
> >> t> I've had this trouble before, how do I find the details of how "in"
> >> t> works in the documentation.  E.g. the details of:-
> > 
> >> t>     if string in bigstring:
> > 
> >> t> It gets a mention in the "if" section but not a lot.
> > 
> > It is explained in The Python Language Reference, chapter Expressions,
> > section Comparisons. At least that's were it is in the 2.6 doc.
> 
> Lots of people have been very helpful 
> but isn't the OP's real problem
> that "in" is not included in the 2.6.1 
> Help index?
> 
Yes, I think that is/was my problem.  To find the information I had
to know that I should look in the Expressions chapter and while that
is (possibly) obvious for some things (+, -, AND, OR, etc.) it isn't
quite so obvious for "in".

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Chris Green
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