Special Python Operators : in & is

in operator

The power of inbuilt operators in Python doesn’t stop surprising me. Perhaps one of the most powerful operators I have come across is the operator: in

This operator returns a boolean value.

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It can be used with a str or a list.

list

Case Sensitive — so “godfather” will fail

str

see — it works with str !

is operator

Similar to in, is returns a boolean. is compares two variables to tell us if the id is the same:

a = 42
b = 13

if (a is b):
  pass