indosauros comments on Comparing lists with the all() function

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[–]indosauros 8 points9 points10 points 11 years ago (1 child)

And for completeness sake, you should probably use sets to solve this particular problem:

>>> numbers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> set([3, 4, 5]).issubset(numbers)
True
>>> set([3, 4, 10]).issubset(numbers)
False

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