Re: Going crazy...

2005-06-14 Thread Scott David Daniels
Jan Danielsson wrote: > Gary Herron wrote: >>... a more recent addition to the language is Sets, ... >from sets import Set >Set([1,2,3,4,5,6]) - Set([2,3,6]) >> >>Set([1, 4, 5]) If you are using 2.4 or later, you can simply use "set" without importing anything. set(['apple', 'orange'

Re: Going crazy...

2005-06-14 Thread Jan Danielsson
Gary Herron wrote: [---] >> I just tried typing the above in Python, and it - obviously - doesn't >> work, so it must be some other syntax. >> >> > Not with tuples, lists or dictionaries. However a more recent addition > to the language is Sets, and they support set differences: > from s

Re: Going crazy...

2005-06-13 Thread Irmen de Jong
Jan Danielsson wrote: > Hello all, > >I'm 100% sure that I saw an example which looked something like this > recently: > > a=(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) b=(2, 3, 6) a - b > > (1, 4, 5) > >The only new language I have been involved in lately is Python. Is my > memory failing me, or h

Re: Going crazy...

2005-06-13 Thread Chinook
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:52:43 -0400, Gary Herron wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Jan Danielsson wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm 100% sure that I saw an example which looked something like this >> recently: >> >> >> > a=(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) > b=(2, 3, 6) > a - b >

Re: Going crazy...

2005-06-13 Thread Gary Herron
Jan Danielsson wrote: >Hello all, > > I'm 100% sure that I saw an example which looked something like this >recently: > > > a=(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) b=(2, 3, 6) a - b >(1, 4, 5) > > The only new language I have been involved in lately is Python. Is my >memory failin