On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 03:05:36AM +0000, MRAB wrote:
> How about doubling-up the braces:
>
> {{1, 2, 3}}
I mentioned that earlier. Its not *awful*, but as you point out
yourself, it does run into the problem that nested sets suffer from
brace overflow.
# A set of sets.
{{{{}}, {{1, 2}}, {{'a', {{}}, None}}}}
> and for frozen dicts:
We don't even have a frozen dict in the stdlib, so I'm not going to
discuss that here. If and when we get a frozen dict, if it is important
enough to be a builtin, then we can debate syntax for it.
> but how often would you do that?
Often enough:
https://www.delftstack.com/howto/python/python-set-of-sets/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37105696/how-to-have-a-set-of-sets-in-python/37105728
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5931291/how-can-i-create-a-set-of-sets-in-python
--
Steve
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