Set & Frozenset?

[Matt Nordhoff]

Alan G Isaac wrote:
>> Hans Larsen schrieb:
>>>             How could I "take" an elemment from a set or a frozenset 
> 
> 
> On 3/8/2009 2:06 PM Diez B. Roggisch apparently wrote:
>> You iterate over them. If you only want one value, use
>> iter(the_set).next()
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> 
> I recall a claim that
> 
>     for result in myset: break
> 
> is the most efficient way to get one result.
> Is this right? (It seems nearly the same.)
> 
> Alan Isaac

Checking Python 2.5 on Linux, your solution is much faster, but seeing
as they both come in under a microsecond, it hardly matters.
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