Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:25:12PM +0200, Alex Hall wrote: > > "Strings are not iterable - you cannot loop over them > > or treat them as a > > collection. > > Are you implying that we should deprecate the in operator for > strings > too?
I would not get rid of the `in` behavior, but the `in` behavior of a string is actually not like that of the `in` operator for a typical collection. Seen as simply a collection of single-character strings, "b" would be in "abcd", but "bc" would not. The `in` operator for strings is checking whether the left operand is a substring as opposed to an item. `(2, 3)` is not `in` `(1, 2, 3, 4)`. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/4H2IEA6MNOBH2JKENGLOYIE33O7BT4ST/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
