Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
I concur with the other respondants.
Also, experience has shown a near zero learning curve for sets. For whatever
reason, people seem to just get it and not require further explanation.
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nosy: +rhettinger
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
There is no end of helpful articles at Wikipedia and elsewhere. Wikipedia
articles are especially easy to find with a special search in some browsers and
on the site. In my experience on python-list, for instance, people have much
more problem with floats, fo
Only for relatively uncommon concepts like "Moving Average" and
some other cases used in collections module hyperlink to a general
article helps.
Set theory is a commonly understood concept and link to wikipedia
article may not be required. It can be left to the user to find out
more, if they want
New submission from Thomas Guettler :
A link from
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#set.union
to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_%28set_theory%29
would help young people to understand sets.
Of course it is the same for intersection(), difference(), and
symmetric_difference()
