surprise - byte in set

[Amir Arsalan]

Hi my friends.

On last result you have  a , b , c  binary.

>> set('abc')
{'a','b','c')
>> set(b'abc')
{97,98,99}
On Jan 3, 2015 10:25 PM, "patrick vrijlandt" <pvrijlandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> Let me first wish you all the best in 2015!
>
> Today I was trying to test for occurrence of a byte in a set ...
>
> >>> sys.version
> '3.4.2 (v3.4.2:ab2c023a9432, Oct  6 2014, 22:15:05) [MSC v.1600 32 bit
> (Intel)]'
> >>> 'b' in 'abc'
> True
> >>> b'b' in b'abc'
> True
> >>> 'b' in set('abc')
> True
> >>> b'b' in set(b'abc')
> False
>
> I was surprised by the last result. What happened?
> (Examples simplified; I was planning to manipulate the set)
>
> Patrick
>
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