What does 'not in' operator do in Python?

In Python, in and not in operators are called membership operators. Their purpose is to check if an object is a member of a certain sequence object like string, list, or tuple. The not in operator returns false if object is present in sequence, true if not found

>>> 'p' not in 'Tutorialspoint'
False
>>> 'c' not in 'Tutorialspoint'
True
>>> 10 not in range(0,5)

Malhar Lathkar

Updated on: 26-Feb-2020

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