python - if not in list

Question

I have two lists   mylist     total   age   gender   region   sex   checklist     total   civic     I have to work with some code I have inherited which looks like this   for item in mylist      if item in checklist          do something    How can I work with the code above to tell me that  civic  is not in mylist    This would ve been the ideal way to do it but I cant use it  don t ask me why    for item in checklist      if item not in mylist          print item   Outcome   civic

User · Answer

You better do this syntax  if not  item in mylist         Code inside the if

User · Answer

if I got it right  you can try  for item in  x for x in checklist if x not in mylist       print  item

User · Answer

How about this   for item in mylist      if item in checklist          pass     else           do something        print item

User · Answer

Your code should work  but you can also try       if not item in mylist

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