For example, we have a collection of e-mail addresses (haystack), but also to maintain a small collection of e-mail address (needles), and then find the needles in the number of address also appears in the heystack years. With a collection operation, we only need one line of code on it
The number of needles in the haystack elements appear, the two types of variables are set
found = len(needles & haystack)
found = 0 for n in needles: if n in haystack: found += 1