[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes I suggest to add things to the language (like adding some set > methods to dicts), but I've seen that I tend to forget the meaning of > six set/frozenset operators: > > s & t s &= t > s | t s |= t > s ^ t s ^= t > > My suggestion is to remove them, and keep them only as explicit > non-operator versions (.symmetric_difference(), .update(), > .intersection_update(), etc). But maybe now it's too much late to > remove them... Maybe someone gentle can explain me the advantage > of having/keeping them.
&, |, and ^ are Python's standard operators for AND, OR, and XOR. they make as much sense for sets as they do for bitpatterns... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
