At 01:55 PM 2/1/2006 -0500, Greg Wilson wrote:
>I have a student who may be interested in adding syntactic support for
>sets to Python, so that:
>
> x = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
>
>and:
>
> y = {z for z in x if (z % 2)}
>
>would be legal. There are of course issues (what's the syntax for a
>frozen set? for the empty set?),
Ones that work now:
frozenset(z for z in x if (z%2))
set()
The only case that looks slightly less than optimal is:
set((1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
But I'm not sure that it warrants a special syntax just to get rid of the
extra ().
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