proposed proposal: set.values()
Paul Rubin
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Fri Mar 31 03:02:45 EST 2006
"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
> > Nobody says you shouldn't use list(s) if you know you're dealing with
> > a set. The idea of s.values() is so you can duck-type between dicts
> > and sets.
>
> if y is a dict, "x in y" looks for a matching key, not for a
> matching value.
Good point, the duck typing mismatches on "x in y" and there's nothing
that can be done about that.
Imagine a Bag (multiset) object; it can have multiple occurrences of a
single value. A keys() operation on it should return unique items,
but values() should return the multiple occurrences.
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