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[Python-ideas] Add orderedset as set(iterable, *, ordered=False) and similarly for frozenset.

Neil Girdhar mistersheik at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 22:14:14 CET 2015 
Hundreds of people want an orderedset 
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1653970/does-python-have-an-ordered-set) 
and yet the ordered sets that are in PyPI (oset, ordered-set) are 
incomplete.  Please consider adding an ordered set that has *all* of the 
same functionality as set.

The only major design decision is (I think) whether to store the elements 
in a linked list or dynamic vector.

My personal preference is to specify the ordered set via a flag to the 
constructor, which can be intercepted by __new__ to return a different 
object type as necessary.

(If anyone wants to add a complete ordered set to PyPI that would also be 
very useful for me!)

Best,

Neil
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