Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message <mailman.2140.1245996088.8015.python-l...@python.org>, João Valverde wrote:Simple example usage case: Insert string into data structure in sorted order if it doesn't exist, else retrieve it.the_set = set( ... ) if str in the_set : ... "retrieval" case ... else : the_set.add(str) #end if Want sorted order? sorted(tuple(the_set)) What could be simpler?
Why not just "sorted(the_set)"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list