>>> timeit.timeit("'x' in ('x',)")
0.04869917374131205
>>> timeit.timeit("'x' == 'x'")
0.06144205736110564
Also works for tuples with multiple elements, both versions seem to grow linearly:
>>> timeit.timeit("'x' in ('x', 'y')")
0.04866674801541748
>>> timeit.timeit("'x' == 'x' or 'x' == 'y'")
0.06565782838087131
>>> timeit.timeit("'x' in ('y', 'x')")
0.08975995576448526
>>> timeit.timeit("'x' == 'y' or 'x' == 'y'")
0.12992391047427532
Based on this, I think I should totally start using in
everywhere instead of ==
!