>> What about "{,}"? For consistency "(,)" and "[,]" might
>> also have to be permissible, and maybe even "{:}" for an
>> empty dict.The notion of a set literal was rejected in PEP 218, http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0218/ . One of the reasons for the rejection was that the small benefit of a literal notion was more than offset by the attendant need for syntactical atrocities like those listed above. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
