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Re:Show HN: Refurb – A tool for refurbishing and modernizing... by dosisod on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @02:08AM (#33004737)
You're right! I guess you can't rely on sets being iterated over in order (not that you ever should rely on that). Moreover I was trying to show that you can use lists, tuples, and sets as temporary iterable objects, though but no-one (that I have seen) uses sets in that way.
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Re:Show HN: Refurb – A tool for refurbishing and modernizing... by yunohn on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @03:17AM (#33005106)
Sets are more useful when you want to dedupe unknown data. Defining a set with constants to use immediately in a for loop is not very helpful compared to a tuple or a list.

Also, you can make anything iterable in python if you implement __iter__.

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