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

[geremy condra]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, average <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:
> [I wrote:]
>> If Python3 were to have this feature it would make it worth
>> migrating to
>
> Sorry that may have sounded more harsh than I expected.  If I had more
> resources, I'd propose (and volunteer) a python3000 branch where any
> and all who were disappointed at the *lack* of compatability changes
> could continue working on the core language.  (Moratorium controversy
> solved and quaranteened--any desireable features for the working
> branch would be back-propagated via the time machine as BDFL permits.)
>
> marcos

This is effectively the sandbox idea I proposed, except with backporting.

Geremy Condra