Explain Membership in Python?

A Membership Operator in Python can be defined as being an operator that is used to validate the membership of a value. This operator is used to test memberships in variables such as strings, integers as well as tuples. Membership Operators as a whole contain a number of different operators.

Example:

# Python program to illustrate
# Finding common member in list
# using 'in' operator
list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
list2 = [6, 7, 8, 9]
for item in list1:
    if item in list2:
        print("overlapping")
    else:
        print("not overlapping")
Output:

not overlapping
not overlapping
not overlapping
not overlapping
not overlapping