Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The starting point for this feature request should be recognizing that Guido intentionally chose to not implement the named methods.
Excerpt from PEP 3119: "This also supports the in-place mutating operations |=, &=, ^=, -=. These are concrete methods whose right operand can be an arbitrary Iterable, except for &=, whose right operand must be a Container. This ABC does not provide the named methods present on the built-in concrete set type that perform (almost) the same operations." ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22089> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
