Function Name:
set
Function Signature:
set([iterable])
Function Overview:
- The function set() is the constructor to the Python class set.
- The set() function creates and returns an empty set or it returns a set with the contents from an iterable object.
- Since a set object is mutable, it does not have a hash value.
- Sets do no support indexing and slicing operations.
- The elements in a set are not sorted.
Example:
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# set object initialised with a tuple colors = set(("red","red","red","blue","green","green")) print(colors)
# set of prime numbers less than ten primeTuple = (2,3,5,7) primeSet = set(primeTuple) print(primeSet) |
Output:
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{'green', 'blue', 'red'} {2, 3, 5, 7} |
Note that the colors set does not have multiple values of red and green as the source tuple it was initialized with, because a set will not have duplicate values.