On Sun, 25 May 2008 15:49:16 -0700, notnorwegian wrote: > i meant like set[pos], not iterate but access a specific position in the > set.
If you need to access arbitrary elements, use a list instead of a set (but you'll get slower inserts). OTOH, if you just need to be able to get the next item from the set, you can use an iterator: > now i have to do: > s = toSet.pop() > toSet.add(s) i = iter(toSet) s = i.next() > if i want to get the url of the next item in a set, how would i do that? > i can do this with a list: > > def scrapeSitesX(startAddress, toList, listPos): return > scrapeSites(toList[listPos], toList, listPos+1) to use recursion with a > list. > i can work around that but it doesnt get as elegant. Do you have to use recursion here? Why not: for site in toList: scrape(site) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list