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

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 05:22:03 CET 2009

Next(s) would seem good...

Alex

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On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:47 PM, John Arbash Meinel <john.meinel at canonical.com

wrote:

Adam Olsen wrote:

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:04, Vitor Bosshard <algorias at gmail.com> wrote:

I see this as being useful for frozensets as well, where you can't get an arbitrary element easily due to the obvious lack of .pop(). I ran into this recently, when I had a frozenset that I knew had 1 element (it was the difference between 2 other sets), but couldn't get to that element easily (get the pun?)

item, = setofone

Interesting. It depends a bit on the speed of tuple unpacking, but presumably that is quite fast. On my system it is pretty darn good: 0.101us "for x in s: break" 0.112us "x, = s" 0.122us "for x in s: pass" So not quite as good as the for loop, but quite close. John =:->

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