[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set withoutremoving it

[Antoine Pitrou]

Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes:
> 
> [Chris Bergstresser]
>   Still, I think my
> > point stands--it's a clear extrapolation from the existing dict.get().
> 
> Not really.  One looks-up a key and supplies a default value if not found.
> The other, set.get(), doesn't have a key to lookup.

set.getone() then ?