Re: [Tutor] Arbitrary-argument set function

2013-10-02 Thread bob gailer
On 10/1/2013 6:43 PM, Spyros Charonis wrote: Dear Pythoners, I am trying to extract from a set of about 20 sequences, the characters which are unique to each sequence. For simplicity, imagine I have only 3 "sequences" (words in this example) such as: s1='spam'; s2='scam', s3='slam' I wo

Re: [Tutor] Arbitrary-argument set function

2013-10-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 11:43:09PM +0100, Spyros Charonis wrote: > Dear Pythoners, > > > I am trying to extract from a set of about 20 sequences, the characters > which are unique to each sequence. For simplicity, imagine I have only 3 > "sequences" (words in this example) such as: > > > s1='sp

Re: [Tutor] Arbitrary-argument set function

2013-10-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/10/13 23:43, Spyros Charonis wrote: I am trying to extract from a set of about 20 sequences, the characters which are unique to each sequence. For simplicity, imagine I have only 3 "sequences" (words in this example) such as: s1='spam'; s2='scam', s3='slam' I would like the character t

Re: [Tutor] Arbitrary-argument set function

2013-10-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 1/10/2013 18:43, Spyros Charonis wrote: > Dear Pythoners, > > > I am trying to extract from a set of about 20 sequences, the characters > which are unique to each sequence. For simplicity, imagine I have only 3 > "sequences" (words in this example) such as: > > > s1='spam'; s2='scam', s3='slam'

[Tutor] Arbitrary-argument set function

2013-10-01 Thread Spyros Charonis
Dear Pythoners, I am trying to extract from a set of about 20 sequences, the characters which are unique to each sequence. For simplicity, imagine I have only 3 "sequences" (words in this example) such as: s1='spam'; s2='scam', s3='slam' I would like the character that is unique to each seque