On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:03, Talin wrote:
> In my experience dict literals are far more useful than set literals.
> In fact, I don't think I've ever made a set literal. The only
> syntactical short cut that I would find useful for a set would
> be "new empty set", for which I think "set()" is probably short
> enough already.
I quite often write....
if state in (case1,case2,case3):
as a shorter form of....
if state==case1 or state==case2 or state==case3:
That is definitely a set membership test, although there probably is little
advantage in using a Set object rather than a tuple for this.
--
Toby Dickenson
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