[issue42368] Make set ordered

2020-11-16 Thread Dan Gheorghe Haiduc
New submission from Dan Gheorghe Haiduc : Now that dicts are ordered[1], would it by any chance make sense to also order sets? A use case that I ran into is trying to reproducibly get a random.choice from a set (after calling random.seed). At first I did not need reproducibility, and I

[issue42368] Make set ordered

2020-11-16 Thread Dan Gheorghe Haiduc
Dan Gheorghe Haiduc added the comment: Oops. The reference number [2] in the previous message should instead be https://stackoverflow.com/q/6614447/235463 . -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue42

[issue42368] Make set ordered

2020-11-16 Thread Dan Gheorghe Haiduc
Dan Gheorghe Haiduc added the comment: rhettinger wrote [1]: > The existing setobject code has been finely tuned and micro-optimized over > the years, giving it excellent performance on workloads we care about. This worries me also. But I suppose the tuning should make itself visi