Re: [Python-ideas] Add orderedset as set(iterable, *, ordered=False) and similarly for frozenset.

Andrew Barnert <abarnert@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:

(There's a reason that Java, as well as C++ and other languages, provides sets and maps based on both hash tables and sorted logarithmic structures--because they're not interchangeable.)

Yes. And Python unfortunately only provides them as hash tables. Sturla