On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:14:36 UTC+1, Ian  wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:01 AM,  <peakgraph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am wondering how to make my code function so it does not allow any of the 
> > same values to be entered into a column in my CSV file created through 
> > python. So I need to read into the CSV file and check if any names have 
> > already been entered. If they have, the user must not be allowed to enter 
> > this value.
> 
> Assuming the file is reasonably small enough to fit into memory,
> create a set and populate it with the values in the column. When the
> user enters a new value, check whether it's already in the set.

That's exactly what I want to do, however, I'm unsure how to check whether it's 
in the set?
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