Andy Cheesman wrote: > I've googled a bit for manipulation of > sets into other data structure(lists, arrays) and not seen much. Is the > only way of interconversion a brute force method? > > i.e a = set([1, 2, 3]) > b = [] > for thing in a: > b.append(thing) No, a set is a sequence, you can convert it to a list directly: b = list(a) Kent