Hey Steve, How about set.symmetric_difference()? Does it not do what you want?
Best regards, Bar Harel On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 10:03 PM Steve Jorgensen <ste...@stevej.name> wrote: > Currently, the `issubset` and `issuperset` methods of set objects accept > arbitrary iterables as arguments. An iterable that is both a subset and > superset is, in a sense, "equal" to the set. It would be inappropriate for > `==` to return `True` for such a comparison, however, since that would > break the `Hashable` contract. > > Should sets have an additional method, something like `like(other)`, > `issimilar(other)`, or `isequivalent(other)`, that returns `True` for any > iterable that contains the all of the items in the set and no items that > are not in the set? It would therefore be true in the same cases where > `<set> = set(other)` or `<set>.issubset(other) and <set>.issuperset(other)` > is true. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ULQQ7TZBPQN3RAGKIP52XHFD6LR4HIB4/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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