Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky <at> gmail.com> writes: > > AB> I disagree with Martin. I think interning is a set > AB> operation and it is unfortunate that set API does not > AB> support it directly. > > ML> I disagree with Alexander's last remark in several respects: [...] > ML> The operation "give me the member equal but not identical > ML> to E" is conceptually a lookup operation; the mathematical set > ML> construct has no such operation, and the Python set models > ML> it closely. IOW, set is *not* a dict with key==value.
This looks like a debate of purity vs. practicality. I don't have any opinion on a Python-facing API, but the interpreter's dict of interned strings could probably converted to a set as a simple optimization. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
