Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On a more abstract level, set and dict are both content-addressed collections parametered on hash and equality functions.
Indeed. It's been said that a set is like "half a dict", and this is why sets were implemented using dicts in the old days. It's kind of an obvious thing to do. You can argue about how far the analogy should be taken, but you can't blame people for noticing the similarity. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
