[Tutor] Sets

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shalehperry@attbi.com
Fri Apr 18 20:07:01 2003


On Friday 18 April 2003 06:49, Magnus Lyck=E5 wrote:
>>On Thursday, 2003.04.17, 19:23:47 -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > On Thursday 17 April 2003 17:32, Brian Christopher Robinson wrote:
> > > I think I read that sets will be a primitive data type in the next
> > > version of Python, but what is a good way to implement them now?
> >
> > use a dictionary.
>
> That's a slightly terse explanation...
>

the original poster appeared to know what sets were and that Python would=20
eventually support them.  Did not see the need to explain why dicts were a=
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good choice.  Apparently other readers on the list did desire this info. =20
Sorry about that.