[Python-3000] Set literal

Leif Walsh adlaiff6 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 23:25:54 CET 2008


On Jan 26, 2008 5:11 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> But didn't we start by establishing that users are rarely going to
> create non-empty non-frozen sets anyway, because most algorithms
> involving mutable sets start with an empty one? Even if users
> occasionally write initialized sets, I find it hard to believe that
> this would occur in a performance-critical position.

+1

I can't imagine ever being annoyed that a non-empty mutable set that I
type in myself runs a little slower than it could.

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Cheers,
Leif


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