From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:04:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: SF: 1397711 Set docs conflated immutable and hashable X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~2203 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3156316823aa4aa287841646765fc196101f14b3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git SF: 1397711 Set docs conflated immutable and hashable --- diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index 012e59b05181..a9ea55edf508 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ Notes: \label{types-set}} \obindex{set} -A \dfn{set} object is an unordered collection of immutable values. +A \dfn{set} object is an unordered collection of distinct hashable objects. Common uses include membership testing, removing duplicates from a sequence, and computing mathematical operations such as intersection, union, difference, and symmetric difference.