Question

i know i can use the input function in conjunction with the eval function to input a list of numbers:

numbers = eval(input("enter a list of numbers enclosed in brackets: "))

Also, given a list named items, i can get the list of all the elements of items, except the first one, with
the expression:

items[1:]

im just not sure how to go about getting the program to do what i want it to do

Answer 1

If you have a list and you want to know if the first value appears again later in the list, you can use:

items[0] in items[1:]

That will return True or False depending on whether the first element in items appears again later in items.