Albert van der Horst <[email protected]> writes:
> But I greatly prefer a set
>
> "
> for i in {point1,point2,point3}:
> statements
> "
Agreed, for the reasons you cite. I think this idiom can be expected to
become more common and hopefully displace using a tuple literal or list
literal, as the set literal syntax becomes more reliably available on
arbitrary installed Python versions.
> [Yes I know { } doesn't denote a set. I tried it. I don't know how to
> denote a set ... ]
Try it in Python 3 and be prepared to be pleased
<URL:http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#new-syntax>.
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