Python 101 - Learning About Sets
A set
data type is defined as an "unordered collection of distinct hashable objects" according to the Python 3 documentation. You can use a set
for membership testing, removing duplicates from a sequence and computing mathematical operations, like intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference.
Because they are unordered collections, a set
doe…
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