Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com added the comment:
I concur with the other respondants.
Also, experience has shown a near zero learning curve for sets. For whatever
reason, people seem to just get it and not require further explanation.
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nosy: +rhettinger
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
There is no end of helpful articles at Wikipedia and elsewhere. Wikipedia
articles are especially easy to find with a special search in some browsers and
on the site. In my experience on python-list, for instance, people have much
more
New submission from Thomas Guettler guet...@thomas-guettler.de:
A link from
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#set.union
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_%28set_theory%29
would help young people to understand sets.
Of course it is the same for intersection(), difference(),
