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Membership Testing with 'in'

The 'in' operator checks if a specific value exists within a sequence, such as a list or a string, and returns a boolean (True or False).

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fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']
 
if 'banana' in fruits:
print('Found it!')
Breakdown
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if 'banana' in fruits:
Checks if the string 'banana' is one of the items in the fruits list.
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print('Found it!')
This line runs only if the condition is True.