Christopher Barker writes: > I meant in the context of putting things in, or testing whether they are > in, sets. Not in any other context.
OK, but restricting context that way is asking for eventual trouble, because there's one more thing you can do with sets: get stuff out of them (by iterating). > But to see if I understand correctly, you couldn’t quite use a set to > intern objects: once 2.0 was in there you could not put 2 in as > well. Good point. You could delete one and replace it with the other, but not have both. That does kind of defeat the whole idea of the "intern" nomenclature. Steve _______________________________________________ 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/QUFENUDPGNQZHH35F7ZA2SBLTAAH4FGV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
