Donovan Baarda wrote:
> Before set() the standard way to do them was to use dicts with None
> Values... to me the "{1,2,3}" syntax would have been a logical extension
> of the "a set is a dict with no values, only keys" mindset. I don't know
> why it wasn't done this way in the first place, though I missed the
> arguments where it was rejected.There might be many reasons; one obvious reason is that you can't spell the empty set that way. > Frozensets are to sets what tuples are to lists. It would be nice if > there was another type of bracket that could be used for frozenset... > something like ':1,2,3:'... yuk... I dunno. Readability counts. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
