In this article, we are discussing the Special Operators in Python and their types.
Special operators in Python provide additional functionality to perform specific tasks or comparisons in a more specialized manner. These Operators in Python are a set of operators that go beyond the standard arithmetic,logical ,Relational and bitwise Operators.
Python language offers two special types of operators like the Membership operator and the Identity operator.

Membership and Identity Operators in Python

Here in this article Lets Learn identity and membership operators in Python and explore their usage in more detail.

Membership operator

Membership operators are special types of Operators in Python, they are useful in scenarios where you need to check whether a value exists in a sequence or not, such as a list, tuple, or string. These operators also test a sequence, such as a string, a list, or a tuple, for membership. They check whether a sequence appears in an object or not. These operators can be use in other iterable objects in python.

The membership operators available in Python are

1. in Operator:

is the one of the membership operator in python used to determine if a value is present in a sequence or not. If the specified variable or literal is found in sequence , the in operator will return true, otherwise, it will return false. By using the in operator, we can easily check whether a value is present in a sequence or not (list, tuples, set etc.) without having to loop through the entire sequence.

e.g. in Membership Operator
x=’Well come to Python’
b=[10,20,45,76,32,12]
# check if ‘P’ is present in string x
print(‘P’ in x)     # prints True
# check if number 20 is present in List b
print(20 in b)     # prints True

2. not in Operator:

The not in operator in python determines if the value is present in sequence or not. If the specified variable value or literal is not found in sequence then the not in operator will return true, otherwise, it will return false.
By using the not in operator, we can easily check whether a value is present in a sequence or not (list, tuples, set etc.) without having to loop through the entire sequence.

in not in Membership Operators in Python

#Python script to demonstrate membership operator in Python
# using in, not in operator
fruits = [" Orange”,” apple", "banana",” Mango”, "cherry"]
if "Mango" in fruits:
    print("Yes, Mango is a fruit!")
# using "not in" operator
if "Guva" not in fruits:
   print("Yes, Guva is not in the list of fruits")
Output:
Yes, Mango is a fruit!
Yes, Guva is not in the list of fruits
Explanation:
In the above Python script, the in membership operator is used to check if “Mango" is a member of the fruits list. The Mango is present in the fruits list so the statement if "Mango" in fruits: evaluates true and we got the result Yes, Mango is a fruit!.
Similarly
“Guva" is not a member of the fruits list. The “Guva” not is present in the fruits list so the statement if "Guva" not in fruits: evaluates true and we got the result Yes, Guva is not in the list of fruits .