On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote:
> Does anyone remember the reason that most of the named methods were omitted
> from the ABC for mutablesets and sets?  The update() method in particular
> would be nice to have.

Because it's the same as +=, and if you want it as a callable, you can
use operator.__ior__? :-)

(And frozen sets don't have it.)

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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