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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: I am out of trial and error again  Lists
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:44:01 +0100
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On 23/10/2014 00:26, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 23:55:57 +0100, Mark Lawrence
> <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 22/10/2014 23:30, Seymore4Head wrote:
>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:30:37 -0400, Seymore4Head
>>> <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> One more question.
>>> if y in str(range(10)
>>> Why doesn't that work.
>>
>> Invalid syntax, it should obviously be:-
>>
>> if y in str(range(10)):
>>
>> OTOH if you've simply mistyped above what did you expect to happen and
>> what actually happened?  Give us the actual code that you ran and the
>> full traceback.
>
> I don't get an error.  It just doesn't print the numbers correctly.
> http://imgur.com/a/2loQV
> You can click on the images and make them larger.
> Thanks
>

I suggest you try str(range(10)) from the interactive prompt and see 
exactly what you get, as it's nothing like what you expect :)

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

Mark Lawrence