Py2.3: Feedback on Sets

Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Tue Aug 19 23:15:36 EDT 2003


On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:24:40 -0400, rumours say that Istvan Albert
<ialbert at mailblocks.com> might have written:

>Then there is the update method. It feels a little bit redundant
>since there is an add() method that seems to be doing the same thing 
>only that add() adds only one element at a time.
>Would it be possible to have add() handle all additions, iterable or 
>not, then scrap update() altogether.

If you have a Set set, then these two are quite different:

set.add("hello")
set.update("hello")
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