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[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set without removing it

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Sat Oct 24 22:09:41 CEST 2009 
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:04, Vitor Bosshard <algorias at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see this as being useful for frozensets as well, where you can't get
> an arbitrary element easily due to the obvious lack of .pop(). I ran
> into this recently, when I had a frozenset that I knew had 1 element
> (it was the difference between 2 other sets), but couldn't get to that
> element easily (get the pun?)

item, = set_of_one


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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
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