[Python-Dev] Continuous Sets in 2.3 set implementation? (original) (raw)

Frank Horowitz frank.horowitz@csiro.au
11 Nov 2002 13:38:50 +0800

G'Day folks,

I've had a quick read through of the CVS version of the set.py code. The class as implemented looks nice and clean for what I would call "discrete sets" (e.g. iterable). (I do like the idea of using the dict implementation!)

However, one thing bothers me. Certain operations, such as unions, intersections, and symmetric differences, make sense for "continuous sets" too (think about intervals on the line).

I know it's probably too late in the development cycle to get any meaningful continuous set operations supported, but is there any hope of renaming the implementation to something along the lines of "dsets" to remind the user of the discreteness? (Am I being too pedantic?)

Cheers,
    Frank Horowitz