[Python-Dev] Set options (original) (raw)

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:25:43 -0500

Jeremy wrote:

The problem with a set module is that there are a number of different ways to implement them -- in C using kjbuckets is one example.

Nah. Sets are pretty unambiguous. They're also easy, and boring. The interesting stuff is graphs and operations like composition, closure and transpositions. That's also where stuff gets ambiguous. E.g., what's the right behavior when you invert {'a':1,'b':1}? Hint: any answer you give will be met by the wrath of God.

I would love this stuff, and as a faithful worshipper of Our Lady of Corrugated Ironism, I could probably live with whatever rules are arrived at; but I'm afraid I would have to considerably enlarge my kill file.