* James Y. Knight: > On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> Alex Martelli wrote: >>> Next(s) would seem good... >> >> That does not work. It has to be next(iter(s)), and that has been >> tried and eliminated because it is significantly slower. > > But who cares about the speed of getting an arbitrary element from a > set? How can it *possibly* be a problem in a real program?
Hmm, perhaps when using sets as work queues? _______________________________________________ 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
