ways to declare empty set variable

[Ben Finney]

"Sun" <as at hut.at> writes:

> I was wondering why can't I use a format as "var = {} " to
> "var=list()" in set variable, and decided not to bother with it.

Python 3.0 will gain syntax to specify a literal of type 'set'
<URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/>::

    >>> {17, "foo", 12.5}
    set([17, 'foo', 12.5])

but this won't allow you to declare an empty set literal, because
that's already easy with 'set()', and '{}' is taken already for an
empty dict literal.

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Ben Finney