[Python-Dev] syntactic support for sets (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Wed Feb 1 21:16:58 CET 2006


[Phillip J. Eby]

The only case that looks slightly less than optimal is:

set((1, 2, 3, 4, 5)) But I'm not sure that it warrants a special syntax just to get rid of the extra ().

The PEP records that Tim argued for leaving the extra parentheses. What would you do with {'title'} -- create a four element set consisting of letters or a single element set consisting of a string?

Raymond



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