Rene Pijlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Otten: > >>>> s = set(["one-and-only"]) > >>>> item, = s ... > >The comma may easily be missed, though. > > You could write: > > (item,) = s > > But I'm not sure if this introduces additional overhead.
Naah...: helen:~ alex$ python -mtimeit -s's=set([23])' 'x,=s' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.689 usec per loop helen:~ alex$ python -mtimeit -s's=set([23])' '(x,)=s' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.652 usec per loop helen:~ alex$ python -mtimeit -s's=set([23])' '[x]=s' 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.651 usec per loop ...much of a muchness. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
