Full name
set
Library
Built-in
Syntax
class set([iterable])
Description
The set built-in class returns a set made up of the elements of the iterable included as an argument.
Parameters
- iterable: Iterable whose elements will be included as elements of the generated set.
Result
The returned result is an object of class set.
Examples
We can obtain a set formed by the elements of a list with the following code:
a = [2, 4, 1, 5]
set(a)
{1, 2, 4, 5}
If we start from two lists, we can obtain the elements common to both by converting them into sets and executing the intersection method of one of them:
a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
b = [2, 4, 5, 6]
set(a).intersection(b)
{2, 4}
