del and sets proposal

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:27:04 -0500, Larry Bates wrote:

> Maybe dictionaries should have had a .remove method then things would be
> more consistent?

But why should sets be consistent with dictionaries? There are a few 
similarities, but also differences.

Personally, I'd rather see dictionaries grow methods like 
symmetric_difference, union, etc. than worry about whether you use del or 
remove to remove elements from a set.


-- 
Steven