Re: [Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] One obvious way to do interning [Was: Retrieve anarbitrary element from a set without removing it]

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Here is an alternative idea on how storing interned objects in a set can be supported.

FWIW, here is a recipe that can retrieve canonical objects from any container, letting look-up a preferred representative of an equivalence class: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/499299/ Raymond