Newcomer to Python tutorial question

[Arnaud Delobelle]

"Alan Cameron" <alan.cameron at iname.com> writes:

> I am not sure of this is the right place to ask a question about the 
> tutorial
>
> http://docs.python.org/3.0/tutorial/datastructures.html#sets
>
> why is the printed result of
>
>>>> basket = {'apple', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'orange', 'banana'}
>>>> print(basket)
> {'orange', 'banana', 'pear', 'apple'}
>
> in the sequence given?

A set is an unordered container, but due to the nature of an object
representation (which is a sequence of characters), its representation
has to list the elements in a certain order.  However, this order is not
significant.

-- 
Arnaud