How to check if function name is in a list?

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sagemath 8.9

I am still not good in sagemath and learning it. I am trying to convert this code from Maple to sagemath, but I do not know why it is not working in sagemath.

Given a function, I need to find if it is a member of list of known functions. This is easier explained with an example.

Say the input is gamma(-1,t) and I need to find if the function, which is gamma in this case in member of a list of names of functions, such as [erf,gamma,cos, etc...]. I will show the Maple code and how I translated to sagemath. But in sagemath it gives false instead of true.

Maple:

restart;
expr:=gamma(-1,t);
op(0,expr); #extract the head, which is just the name of the function
                             gamma
member(op(0,expr),[erf,gamma]); #check if it is in the list
                             true

This is in sagemath

sage: var('t')
sage: from sage.all import *
sage: expr=gamma(-1,t)
sage: expr.operator()
         gamma
sage: expr.operator() in [erf,gamma]
         False

So I must be doing something wrong in sagemath. It might be due to type, because when I do

sage: type(expr.operator())
     <class 'sage.functions.gamma.Function_gamma_inc'>

Do I need to import something to make it work? I think the name gamma inside the list is not taken as the same as the name gamma which results from expr.operator() and that is why it gives False. But do not know how to fix it.

The idea is to check if the function is among a list of known function names in a list. How to do this in sagemath?

Thanks --Nasser