Membership Testing with 'in'

Snippet

The 'in' operator provides a clean way to check if a value exists within a list or other sequence.

snippet.py
python
allowed_users = ["admin", "editor", "guest"]
user = "editor"
is_allowed = user in allowed_users
print(is_allowed)

Breakdown

allowed_users = [...]

Creates a list of strings.

user = "editor"

Defines the value we want to search for.

is_allowed = user in allowed_users

Checks if 'editor' is inside the list; returns True or False.

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