[Python-Dev] slightly inconsistent set/list pop behaviour

[Mark Dickinson]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:13 AM, John Barham <jbarham at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you play around a bit it becomes clear that what set.pop() returns
> is independent of the insertion order:

It might look like that, but I don't think this is
true in general (at least, with the current implementation):

>>> foo = set([1, 65537])
>>> foo.pop()
1
>>> foo = set([65537, 1])
>>> foo.pop()
65537

Mark