Checking Input Against a List

Question

name = input("Name of patient: ")
birth_year = int(input("Birth year of patient: "))
age = 2021 - birth_year
previous_patients = ["John Smith", "Allen Mincer", "Ron Fritz"]
print("Patient " + name + " is " + str(age) + " years old")
if name == list(previous_patients):
    print("Registered")
else:
    print("New")

I want it to print out "Registered" if the name from the input matches a name in previous_patients

I've spent a couple of hours on it and can't figure it out, thanks.

Answer 1

if name in  list(previous_patients):
    print("Registered")
else:
    print("New")

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Change the == to in,& it will work !!