David Mertz wrote:
> The pattern of "Create an empty collection, then add stuff in a loop" is
> quite common, ...

Or you can use comprehensions, in which case there's no need for creating an 
empty collection.

s = {f(x) for x in some_list}

vs

s = set()
for x in some_list:
    s.add(f(x))
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