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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2002-08-24 07:33:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2002-08-24 07:33:06 +0000 |
| commit | e87ab3fefed00618992f5fe60a95ec9487e6303f (patch) | |
| tree | 60598399122a01dffbe0134621b368aa54253eaf /Doc/lib | |
| parent | bf935fde1550b768d9fb14cec230d1e79a5212c2 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-e87ab3fefed00618992f5fe60a95ec9487e6303f.tar.gz | |
Removed < <= > >= from the API. Implemented as comparisons of the
underlying dictionaries, there were no reasonable use cases (lexicographic
sorting of a list of sets is somewhat esoteric). Frees the operators
for other uses (such as strict subset and superset comparisons).
Updated documentation and test suite accordingly.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libsets.tex | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsets.tex b/Doc/lib/libsets.tex index 5f199a0ce1..8ce62c8898 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsets.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsets.tex @@ -100,9 +100,8 @@ the following operations: \end{tableii} In addition to the above operations, both \class{Set} and \class{ImmutableSet} -support set to set comparison operators based on the contents of their -internal dictionaries. Two sets are equal if and only if every element of -each set is contained in the other. +support set to set equality comparisons. Two sets are equal if and only if +every element of each set is contained in the other. The following table lists operations available in \class{ImmutableSet} but not found in \class{Set}: |