Xiaolei wrote: > Sybren Stuvel wrote: > >>Xiaolei enlightened us with: >> >>>from pylab import * >> >>You'd better not do that. Just use "import pylab". >> >>>If I remove the first line, I correctly get: >>> >>>[1, 2, 3, 3] >>><type 'set'> >>>set([1, 2, 3]) >> >>Pylab shadows the built-in set name, which is one of the reasons you >>should generally use "import XXX" instead of "from XXX import *". > > Ahh. Understood. Thank you very much.
It should be noted that recent versions of matplotlib's pylab module have changed that function to setp() in order to avoid this problem. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
