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A set is an unordered collection of unique and immutable elements that can be of different types. Sets can perform mathematical operations like union, intersection, and symmetric difference. A set cannot contain mutable elements like lists. We can add, remove, and test for existence of elements in a set. Sets are useful for removing duplicate elements from a list.

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Pythonset 190215110731

A set is an unordered collection of unique and immutable elements that can be of different types. Sets can perform mathematical operations like union, intersection, and symmetric difference. A set cannot contain mutable elements like lists. We can add, remove, and test for existence of elements in a set. Sets are useful for removing duplicate elements from a list.

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 A set is an unordered collection of items.

Every element is
unique and must be immutable.
 However, the set itself is mutable. We can add or remove
items from it.
 Sets can be used to perform mathematical set operations
like union, intersection, symmetric difference etc.
 A set is created by placing all the elements inside curly braces {},
separated by comma or by using the built-in function set().
 The elements can be of different types (integer, float, tuple, string
etc.).
 But a set cannot have a mutable element, like list, set or dictionary,
as its element.
A set can contain elements of different type

A set cannot contain lists. We can convert a list to set


using set function
LIST TUPLE

 append  add
 extend  Update
 Insert  -----------

 Pop  ------------
 remove  remove
 discard
 Sets are mutable. But since they are unordered, indexing have no
meaning.
 We cannot access or change an element of set using indexing or slicing.
 We can add single element using the add() method and multiple
elements using the update() method.
 The update() method can take tuples, lists, strings or other sets as its
argument.
 In all cases, duplicates are avoided.
 A particular item can be removed from set using
methods, discard() and remove().
 using discard() if the item does not exist in the set, it remains
unchanged.
 But remove() will raise an error in such condition.
 We can test if an item exists in a set or
not, using the in operator.
 Given an list of elements, remove the
duplicate element.
 Read a string and find the number of unique
characters in it.
 Sets can be used to carry out mathematical set operations
like union, intersection, difference and symmetric difference.
 We can do this with operators or methods.
Method Operator
union |

intersection &

difference -

symmetric_difference ^
 We have seen the applications of union, intersection,
difference and symmetric difference operations, but these operations do not
make any changes or mutations to the set.
 We can use the following operations to create mutations to a set:
Method Operator
update |= Update the set by adding elements
from an iterable/another set.
intersection_update &= Update the set by keeping only the
elements found in it and an
iterable/another set.
Difference_update -= Update the set by removing elements
found in an iterable/another set.
symmetric_difference_update ^= Update the set by only keeping the
elements found in either set, but not
in both.
 Isdisjoint– This method will return True if two
set have a null intersection
 Issubset – This method reports whether
another set contains this set
 Issuperset – This method will report whether
this set contains another set

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