A Simple Guide to Sets in Python
A Simple Guide To Sets in Python Photo Credit : Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels I NTRODUCTION Sets store multiple data collections in a single variable and the items have no particular order or index and they are also not mutable either, which is why, their items can appear in any order when we perform operations on them, since they are not indexed, so , we can not refer to them by their index position. A Set is represented by a pair of curly braces. A set does not permit duplicate items. HOW TO CREATE A SET Below, in the code, you can understand, how a set is created. The variable myset is a set containing multiple items, that are string items , namely, 'cat', 'dog' and 'rabbit'. We use the curly braces to enclose the three items as shown below and you can use the print function to get the resultant set containing these items. mytuple = {cat","dog","rabbit"} print(myset) ...