Arithmetic sequences in Python

[Hans Nowak]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Do YOU have any good reason why
> sets should print out as set(...) and lists should NOT print out as
> list(...)?  Is 'list' somehow "deeper" than 'set', to deserve a special
> display-form syntax which 'set' doesn't get?  Or are you enshrining a
> historical accident to the level of an erroneously assumed principle?

(I haven't been following this thread much, so I can't tell if you're 
actually arguing for this change, or that you are just playing devil's 
advocate...)

I would have liked to say that lists are a fundamental data type, much 
more so than a set... but in reality that seems to be a matter of taste 
and priorities.  Pascal, for example, has a set literal, but no list 
literal; in fact, it doesn't even have a built-in list type.

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Hans Nowak
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