Stephen> I have: Stephen> try: Stephen> set Stephen> except NameError: Stephen> from sets import Set as set
Stephen> in my code in a few places. Yes, but then pychecker complains about a statement with no apparent effect, hence the extra verbiage. My question wasn't about a less ugly way to type what I type now. It was about whether injecting "set" into the builtins (so I can dispense with the above cruft altogether) is likely to cause problems. I think not, certainly based on what little surveying I've done at work. I was hoping someone else had already tried this and could report on their experience. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list