Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:03:50AM -0000, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > Every set is a superset of itself and a subset of > > itself. A set may > > not be a "formal" subset or a "formal" superset of itself. issubset > > and issuperset refer to standard subsets and supersets, not formal > > subsets and supersets. > > Sorry, I don't understand your terminology "formal" and "standard". I > think you might mean "proper" rather than formal? But I don't know what > you mean by "standard". <snip>
Right. I meant "proper". Not "formal". By "standard", I simply mean without the "proper" qualifier. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GGAKYH5HFZHIPTOIXJA64MY2W7BAIZMQ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/