testing the 'in' operator #science

tests.py

from time import time

def test(iterable):
    start = time()
    for i in range(scale):
        if i in iterable:
            a = 90.0 + 6000
    return time()-start

def aggregate(count,f,a):
    tests = [f(a) for c in range(count)]
    return sum(tests)/count

scale = 2**13
c = 10
l = list(n for n in range(scale) if n%3==0)
d = dict((n,True) for n in range(scale) if n%3==0)
s = set(n for n in range(scale) if n%3==0)

print "done generating data, now processing"

print aggregate(c,test,l),"lists"  # 1.9323
print aggregate(c,test,d),"dicts"  # 0.0041   ## winner
print aggregate(c,test,s),"sets"   # 0.0044   ## very close, maybe it's a wrapper for dict()?