When convert two sets with the same elements to lists, are the lists always going to be the same?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri May 4 07:21:30 EDT 2012


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. This is what I'm looking for. I think that this should be
> added to the python document as a manifestation (but nonnormalized) of
> what "A set object is an unordered collection of distinct hashable
> objects" means.

There are other things that can prove it to be unordered, too; the
exact pattern and order of additions and deletions can affect the
iteration order. The only thing you can be sure of is that you can't
be sure of it.

ChrisA



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