Set Comprehensions

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Set comprehension is similar to list and dictionary comprehension, but it produces a set, which is an unordered collection of unique elements.

# A set containing every value in range(5):
{x for x in range(5)}
# Out: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}

# A set of even numbers between 1 and 10:
{x for x in range(1, 11) if x % 2 == 0}
# Out: {2, 4, 6, 8, 10}

# Unique alphabetic characters in a string of text:
text = "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people..."
{ch.lower() for ch in text if ch.isalpha()}
# Out: set(['a', 'c', 'b', 'e', 'f', 'i', 'h', 'm', 'l', 'o',
#           'n', 'p', 's', 'r', 'u', 't', 'w', 'v', 'y'])

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Keep in mind that sets are unordered. This means that the order of the results in the set may differ from the one presented in the above examples.

Note: Set comprehension is available since python 2.7+, unlike list comprehensions, which were added in 2.0. In Python 2.2 to Python 2.6, the set() function can be used with a generator expression to produce the same result:

set(x for x in range(5))
# Out: {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}

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