Just to expand on that answer: Plain python prints the empty dictionary as {} so it has the potential to be confusing to people that know Python:
>>> set() set([]) >>> set([1]) set([1]) >>> dict() {} >>> dict(a=1) {'a': 1} On Friday, April 1, 2016 at 11:07:48 AM UTC+2, Viviane Pons wrote: > > I would say it's a python thing, and it's probably because {} is actually > a dictionarry and not a set. > > 2016-04-01 11:04 GMT+02:00 Sébastien Labbé <sla...@gmail.com <javascript:> > >: > >> sage: set([1]) >> {1} >> sage: set() >> set() >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.