the trouble is it throws up the following error for set:
$ ./test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./test.py", line 23, in ? reflist = [normalize(element) for element in list1] File "./test.py", line 20, in normalize return set(text.split()) NameError: global name 'set' is not defined
The set type became a builtin in Python 2.4. I would suggest upgrading, but if this is not an option, you can put this at the top of the file, and it should get rid of the NameError:
from sets import Set as set
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