On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:53 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > 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. >
"Interning" is usually only done with strings. To get a similar effect, you could put (type(x), x) into the tuple, which would allow you to have both the int 2 and the float 2.0 in the interning set. Or have separate sets for different types. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/BIWJ2KWJ5FLEU2ZCBKU26FY6LSESPBLE/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
