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

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sun Jul 7 23:07:50 CEST 2013


On 7/7/2013 1:45 AM, David Mertz wrote:
> Maybe the generalization isn't worthwhile.  I was thinking that maybe a
> more general version should keep order in types that have order to start
> with, so I confess I'm not certain what the "correct" interface would be.
> 
> But even if it were only for sets, I like the idea of a plain function
> much better than a method of a set, even if the only arguments it
> accepted were sets.

If it were added, I think a classmember on set would be reasonable.


-- 
Eric.


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