[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set withoutremoving it (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Oct 27 18:59:00 CET 2009


Raymond Hettinger <python rcn.com> writes:

[Chris Bergstresser] Still, I think my > point stands--it's a clear extrapolation from the existing dict.get(). Not really. One looks-up a key and supplies a default value if not found. The other, set.get(), doesn't have a key to lookup.

set.getone() then ?



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