Converting a set into list

[Ben Finney]

TheSaint <nobody at nowhere.net.no> writes:

> Thomas Rachel wrote:
>
> > Which loops do you mean here?
>
> list(set) has been proved to largely win against
> list = []
> for item in set:
>     list.append(item)
> or [list.append(item) for item in set]

Remember that the criterion of speed is a matter of the implementation,
and what's fast on one won't necessarily be fast on others. Which
implementations did you try?

Where I do agree is that ‘list(foo)’ wins over the other examples you
show on the important criteria of concision and readability.

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Ben Finney