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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-03-21 09:10:32 +0000
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-03-21 09:10:32 +0000
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79172 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:08:00 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line Add a paragraph about set displays. ........
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@@ -1704,6 +1704,10 @@ The :class:`frozenset` type is immutable and :term:`hashable` --- its contents c
altered after it is created; it can therefore be used as a dictionary key or as
an element of another set.
+Non-empty sets (not frozensets) can be created by placing a comma-separated list
+of elements pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack', 'sjoerd'}``, in
+addition to the :class:`set` constructor.
+
The constructors for both classes work the same:
.. class:: set([iterable])