# check that interned strings are compared against non-interned strings di = {"key1": "value"} # lookup interned string k = "key1" print(k in di) # lookup non-interned string k2 = "key" + "1" print(k == k2) print(k2 in di) # lookup non-interned string print("".join(['k', 'e', 'y', '1']) in di)