Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> So you want to introduce additional, hidden state to sets? (to make >> sure that successive invocations return different values) > > If you can think of any other way to efficiently cycle over the elements > in a set, I'm all for it :)
for x in itertools.cycle(s): # this is an infinite loop Having a pick() or get() method that returns an arbitrary member of a set makes sense to me. Having any state on the set that guarantees successive calls to get will return different values feels wrong - creating an object with that extra state is what iter(s) is for. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
