Py2.3: Feedback on Sets

Raymond Hettinger vze4rx4y at verizon.net
Sun Aug 17 14:03:40 EDT 2003


"John Smith"
> Suggestion: How about adding  Set.isProperSubset() and
> Set.isProperSuperset()?

We have them in operator form:  a<b    a>b
Spelling them out did not seem to add much value.
This is doubly true because some people read it
as s.isProperSubsetOf(t) and others read it as
s.hasTheProperSubset(t).


Raymond Hettinger

> Thanks for this wonderful module. I've been working on data mining and
> machine
> learning area using Python. Set operations are very important to me.

Great.  You'll love it even more when I implement it in C.



Raymond Hettinger






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