del and sets proposal
Carl Banks
pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 05:18:53 EDT 2008
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On Oct 2, 11:27 pm, Larry Bates <larry.ba... at vitalEsafe.com> wrote: > I didn't mean to imply that del a[1] would delete the first thing in the set, > but rather the item with a value of 1. Just as when we use it on a dictionary: > > del a[1] > > doesn't mean delete the first dictionary entry but rather delete the entry in > the object with a value of 1, which IMHO would be perfectly logical for a set > (which is why I started this discussion). It's not logical at all. In all current uses of del, the thing that follows del is a valid expression. With sets, that's not the case. Carl Banks
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