Suresh Pillai wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:48:28 +0200, Suresh Pillai wrote: > >> Okay, please consider this my one absolutely stupid post for the year. >> I'd like to pretend it never happened but unfortunately the web doesn't >> allow that. Having never used sets, I unfort read something that lead >> to it, but ... > > Okay, got some sleep and what I meant to ask, although equally basic, but > not silly: > > For sets, I presume they are built on top of or like dicts, and there is > nothing crazy in the low level implementation so that I can be guaranteed > that if I don't alter the set, then the order, although arbitrary, will > be maintained in successive iterations over the contents?
It is currently that way, but relying on it is certainly to be considered an implementation detail that might disappear without warning. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
