Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> Basically, it is for a sense of completeness. It feels weird that there
is a way to check whether an iterable is a subset of a set or a superset
> of a set but no way to directly ask whether it is equivalent to the
set.
I can't say this has never happened historically, but I've yet to ever see a change proposal accepted simply on the basis of "completeness". There typically has to be some form of concrete, practical use case for the feature. Otherwise, it's quite simply not going to be worth the review and long-term maintenance cost to the limited core CPython development resources.
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Even though the need for it might not be common, I think that the
collection of methods makes more sense if a method like this is present.
It's okay if the need isn't very common, but it still typically requires some real use case to be clearly defined. Even if it might be fairly niche, are there any?
(Note that if it's too niche, it's likely more suitable as a 3rd party package.)