>>> from sets import Set >>> engineers = Set(['John', 'Jane', 'Jack', 'Janice']) >>> programmers = Set(['Jack', 'Sam', 'Susan', 'Janice']) >>> managers = Set(['Jane', 'Jack', 'Susan', 'Zack']) >>> employees = engineers | programmers | managers # union >>> engineering_management = engineers & managers # intersection >>> fulltime_management = managers - engineers - programmers # difference >>> engineers.add('Marvin') # add element >>> print engineers Set(['Jane', 'Marvin', 'Janice', 'John', 'Jack']) >>> employees.issuperset(engineers) # superset test False >>> employees.union_update(engineers) # update from another set >>> employees.issuperset(engineers) True >>> for group in [engineers, programmers, management, employees]: ... group.discard('Susan') # unconditionally remove element ... print group ... Set(['Jane', 'Marvin', 'Janice', 'John', 'Jack']) Set(['Janice', 'Jack', 'Sam']) Set(['Jane', 'Zack', 'Jack']) Set(['Jack', 'Sam', 'Jane', 'Marvin', 'Janice', 'John', 'Zack'])
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