Commit cab5b945 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

SF bug #995983 and #995987: Documentation nits.

parent 7bd33c5e
......@@ -1185,6 +1185,10 @@ subset of the second set (is a subset, but is not equal).
A set is greater than another set if and only if the first set is a proper
superset of the second set (is a superset, but is not equal).
Instanceas of \class{set} are compared to instances of \class{frozenset} based
on their members. For example, \samp{set('abc') == frozenset('abc')} returns
\code{True}.
The subset and equality comparisons do not generalize to a complete
ordering function. For example, any two disjoint sets are not equal and
are not subsets of each other, so \emph{all} of the following return
......@@ -1195,11 +1199,9 @@ Accordingly, sets do not implement the \method{__cmp__} method.
Since sets only define partial ordering (subset relationships), the output
of the \method{list.sort()} method is undefined for lists of sets.
For convenience in implementing sets of sets, the \method{__contains__()},
\method{remove()}, and \method{discard()} methods automatically match
instances of the \class{set} class their \class{frozenset} counterparts
inside a set. For example, \code{set('abc') in set([frozenset('abc')])}
returns \code{True}.
Binary operations that mix \class{set} instances with \class{frozenset}
return the type of the first operand. For example:
\samp{frozenset('ab') | set('bc')} returns an instance of \class{frozenset}.
The following table lists operations available for \class{set}
that do not apply to immutable instances of \class{frozenset}:
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