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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-03-28 12:24:51 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-03-28 12:24:51 (GMT)
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Don't use the confusing term "set membership".
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@@ -1061,14 +1061,14 @@ Comparison of objects of the same type depends on the type:
another one is made arbitrarily but consistently within one execution of a
program.
-The operators :keyword:`in` and :keyword:`not in` test for set membership. ``x
-in s`` evaluates to true if *x* is a member of the set *s*, and false otherwise.
-``x not in s`` returns the negation of ``x in s``. The set membership test has
-traditionally been bound to sequences; an object is a member of a set if the set
-is a sequence and contains an element equal to that object. However, it is
-possible for an object to support membership tests without being a sequence. In
-particular, dictionaries support membership testing as a nicer way of spelling
-``key in dict``; other mapping types may follow suit.
+The operators :keyword:`in` and :keyword:`not in` test for collection
+membership. ``x in s`` evaluates to true if *x* is a member of the collection
+*s*, and false otherwise. ``x not in s`` returns the negation of ``x in s``.
+The collection membership test has traditionally been bound to sequences; an
+object is a member of a collection if the collection is a sequence and contains
+an element equal to that object. However, it make sense for many other object
+types to support membership tests without being a sequence. In particular,
+dictionaries (for keys) and sets support membership testing.
For the list and tuple types, ``x in y`` is true if and only if there exists an
index *i* such that ``x == y[i]`` is true.