[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set without removing it

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> To me, however, a set seems to be a container that is a specialization
> of a dict with values and keys being the same.

That's absurd; the mapping provides nothing useful.

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--Guido van Rossum

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