[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set without removing it (original) (raw)

Martin (gzlist) gzlist at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 24 11:12:26 CEST 2009

On 24/10/2009, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Ben Finney wrote:

Which then raises the question “what part of the set does it get?”, which the function signature does nothing to answer. I'm proposing that a no-parameters ‘set.get’ is needlessly confusing to think about. The fact that set.get() is just set.pop() without removing the result from the set seems perfectly straightforward.

There's a different proposed meaning for set.get that's been discussed on python-dev before:

<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/088128.html>

That one I've had cause for before and no clean and fast way of writing, this one I've always just done the for/break thing.

Martin

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