Alan G Isaac wrote: >> Hans Larsen schrieb: >>> How could I "take" an elemment from a set or a frozenset > > > On 3/8/2009 2:06 PM Diez B. Roggisch apparently wrote: >> You iterate over them. If you only want one value, use >> iter(the_set).next() > > > I recall a claim that > > for result in myset: break > > is the most efficient way to get one result. > Is this right? (It seems nearly the same.) > > Alan Isaac
Checking Python 2.5 on Linux, your solution is much faster, but seeing as they both come in under a microsecond, it hardly matters. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list