Which module is "set " in?

Anthony Liu antonyliu2002 at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 26 00:01:22 EST 2005


Thanks a lot, mine is Python 2.3, and 

    from sets import Set as set

works great!


--- Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anthony Liu wrote:
> > I want to use the set function like
> > 
> >     mylist = ['a', 'b', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'a']
> >     myset  = set (mylist)
> > 
> > But I don't know what to import, I tried sys,
> sets,
> > they don't work.
> 
> If you're using Python 2.4, they're builtin.  If
> you're using Python 
> 2.3, you'll probably want to do something like:
>      from sets import Set as set
> Python's before 2.3 do not have a set type.
> 
> > What's the easy way to find out the module that
> > contains a particular function?
> 
> Perhaps the documentation index?
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/genindex.html
> 
> Steve
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