Gary Herron wrote: > You could use ImmutableSets as indexes. (In fact this is the whole > reason for the existence of ImmutableSets.) > > You could derive your own dictionary type from the builtin dictionary > type, and map an index operation d[(x,y)] to > d[ImmutableSet(a,b)]. Then all of d[a,b], d[b,a], d[(a,b)] and d[(b,a)] > would index the same element. > > See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sets.html for details of the set > module.
Since Python 2.4, sets are built-in types. Use "set" and "frozenset" instead of "sets.Set" and "sets.ImmutableSet", respectively. If you need Python 2.3 compatibility, you can do something like this: try: set, frozenset except NameError: from sets import Set as set, ImmutableSet as frozenset -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list