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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Feb 6 18:34:42 CET 2006


On 2/6/06, Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote:

yeah... the problem is differentiating the empty set from an empty dict. The only alternative that occured to me was the not-so-nice and not-backwards-compatible "{:}" for an empty dict and "{}" for an empty set.

How about spelling the empty set as ``set()''? Wouldn't that solve the ambiguity and the backwards compatibility nicely?

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