On May 9, 11:41 am, Steven Bethard <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
> $ python -m timeit -s "s = set('abcdef')" "x = s.pop(); s.add(x)"
It's interesting that that's faster. I'd be hesitant to use that in a
real program because it's so unattractive (as is the '.next()'
approach). To me a builtin method would be worthwhile in this case.