On 2015-11-18, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:40 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> so I would say the choices are: Set >> literal if available, else tuple. Forget the performance. > > It seems rather strange to argue that we should ignore performance when the > whole reason for using sets in the first place is for performance.
Who says the whole reason for using sets is performance? Sets behave differently to tuples or lists - the members are guaranteed to be unique. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list