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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Eric Lafontaine, christian.heimes, docs@python, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, nparikh, r.david.murray, vstinner
Date 2017-02-08.02:10:39
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>>> bool(())
False
>>> bool([])
False
>>> bool('')
False

What you want to say is that 'in' coerces the result returned by __contains__ to a boolean value.
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