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Author Eric Lafontaine
Recipients Eric Lafontaine, christian.heimes, docs@python, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, nparikh, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2017-02-08.01:25:03
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Hi all,

Here are the test I've made to understand the behavior :

class Foo_42(object):
    def __contains__(self,item): return 42 
    
class Foo_neg(object):
    def __contains__(self,item): return -42 
    
class Foo_None(object):
    def __contains__(self,item): return  
    
class Foo_false(object):
    def __contains__(self,item): return False 
    
class Foo_true(object):
    def __contains__(self,item): return True

for foo in [Foo_false(),Foo_None(),Foo_neg(),Foo_true(),Foo_42()]:
    print("3 in foo:" + str(3 in foo))
    print("foo.__contains__(3)" + str(foo.__contains__(3)))
    

which output this :
3 in foo:False
foo.__contains__(3)False
3 in foo:False
foo.__contains__(3)None
3 in foo:True
foo.__contains__(3)-42
3 in foo:True
foo.__contains__(3)True
3 in foo:True
foo.__contains__(3)42

So as long as __contains__ return False or None, the 'in' operator will be False.  Otherwise true.
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2017-02-08 01:25:06Eric Lafontainesetrecipients: + Eric Lafontaine, mark.dickinson, vstinner, christian.heimes, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, docs@python, nparikh
2017-02-08 01:25:05Eric Lafontainesetmessageid: <1486517105.06.0.812064615771.issue16011@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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