[Python-Dev] re: Using lists as sets

Moshe Zadka Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:03:47 +0200 (IST)


On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 gvwilson@nevex.com wrote:

> [After discussion with Ping, and weekend thought]
> 
> I would like to vote against using lists as sets:

I'd like to object too, but for slightly different reasons: 20-something
lines of Python can implement a set (I just chacked it) with the new 
__contains__. We can just suply it in the standard library (Set module?)
and be over and done with. 
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. 
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