[Python-ideas] set.add could return True or False

[Matt Joiner]

I've submitted patches and benchmarks for this here:
http://bugs.python.org/issue14320

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 15Mar2012 02:26, Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote:
> | This is an example only.
> [... racy stuff ...]
>
> Then please provide a realistic nonracy example.
>
> And also, what's your use case for "Adding an element that is already
> present often constitutes an error in my code"? And how is it not
> addressed by:
>
>  b.update( (a,) )
>
> Cheers,
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