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