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

All this talk of equivalence classes makes me dizzy. :-) - If sets were to grow an API to non-destructively access the object stored in the set for a particular key, then dicts should have such a method too. - Ditto for an API to non-destructively get an arbitrary element. - I'm far from convinced that we urgently need either API. But I'm also not convinced it's unneeded. - I still wish we could go back in time and unify sets and dicts, if only to find out how that experiment would turn out. -- --Guido van Rossum PS. My elbow needs a couple more weeks of rest. Limiting myself to ultra-short emails.