[Python-ideas] exclusively1, common, exclusively2 = set1 - set2, set1 & set2, set2 - set1

[Paddy3118]

On Friday, 5 July 2013 07:19:24 UTC+1, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
> Oscar Benjamin wrote: 
> > On 4 July 2013 03:10, Steven D'Aprano <st... at pearwood.info <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>  > 
> >>Does any other language with sets offer this as a set primitive? 
> > 
> > I'd be interested to know what they call it if they do. 
>
> I think it should be called vennerate(). 
>

Vennerate?
Cute; but we have str1.partition(str2), and set1.partition(set2) would be 
mathematical partition of the union of both sets returning a tuple of three 
elements - just like str.partition, which makes me vote for the name 
"partition".

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