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

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 19:20:04 CET 2009


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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 ?

ugh- other spellings much preferred.

Geremy Condra



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