New submission from Dan Gheorghe Haiduc <danuthai...@gmail.com>:
Now that dicts are ordered[1], would it by any chance make sense to also order sets? A use case that I ran into is trying to reproducibly get a random.choice from a set (after calling random.seed). At first I did not need reproducibility, and I just called random.choice(list(my_set)). Later when I did need it, it was difficult to find out what was wrong. Then I realized that sets are unordered, and that order is not dependent on random.seed. It seems there are also some other confused newbies out there.[2][3] Thank you for the powerful language that is Python! [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0468 [2] https://stackoverflow.com/q/11929701/235463 [3] https://stackoverflow.com/q/36317520/235463 ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 381088 nosy: danuker priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Make set ordered type: enhancement _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42368> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
