[Python-3000] Empty set and empty dictionary

Eoghan Murray eoghan at qatano.com
Tue Apr 17 02:35:49 CEST 2007


s[1] being a list index of the list 's'
s[1,] being a set literal with one element, '1'

On 17/04/07, Eoghan Murray <eoghan at qatano.com> wrote:
>
> I had another idea on this theme.. going by unicode and raw string
> literals, how about
> s[1, 2, 3, 4]
> for a set?
>
> Eoghan
>
> On 17/04/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> > DillonCo wrote:
> >
> > > Why not use "<>" for sets?
> >
> > Some possible reasons:
> >
> > * It would look ugly
> >
> > * There could be visual confusion with comparison operators
> >
> > * There could be parsing difficulties distinguishing
> >    nested set bracketing from << and >> operators
> >
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