Cat Chenal <catche...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Thank you for pointing out my lack of clarity: I apologize. I probably should not have split this issue in two (issue38855). My confusion stems from the fact that I expected the unpacking of a set to return the same output as that obtained from the unpacking of a list. >From my testing, I gather that the unpacking of a set is performed via its >repr, which uses "some ordering". In closing, I want to note two points: 1. repr is apparently platform-dependent (here: Python 3.6.7 [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]): The code given by steven.daprano run in a jupyter lab cell or in VS Code yields a different output: >>> repr({4, 5, 2**31+1, 2, 2**31+2, 3, 2**31, 0}) '{2147483648, 2147483649, 2, 2147483650, 4, 5, 3, 0}' 2. Testing reviewer's assertion: "The specific order you see will depend on the specific values in the set, as well as the order that they were inserted, deleted, and/or re-inserted in some arbitrary way." This counter example, where element 0 is moved to the second position, shows that there is not such order dependence: >>> repr({4, 0, 5, 2**31+1, 2, 2**31+2, 3, 2**31}) '{0, 2147483649, 2, 2147483650, 4, 5, 3, 2147483648}' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38853> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com