Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Tue Oct 27 18:47:59 CET 2009

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[Chris Bergstresser]
  Still, I think my
> point stands--it's a clear extrapolation from the existing dict.get().

Not really.  One looks-up a key and supplies a default value if not found.
The other, set.get(), doesn't have a key to lookup.

A dict.get() can be meaningfully used in a loop (because the key can vary).
A set.get() returns the same value over and over again (because there is no key).


Raymond

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