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Python 101 - Learning About Sets

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Python 101 - Learning About Sets

Mike Driscoll
Jul 26, 2023
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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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