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On 15/03/2016 00:26, jj0gen0info@gmail.com wrote:
> In Python is it possible to comparison-equate a variable to a List, Tupple, or Set and have it return True if the contents of the variable matches an element in the List, Tupple, or Set.
>

It's actually "tuple", but what the heck :)

> E.g.
>
> x = "apple"
>
> x-list = ["apple", "banana", "peach"]
>
> If x == x-list:
>      print('Comparison is True')
> else:
>      print('Comparison is False')
>

if x in x-list:
   ...


-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence