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Access Set Items

Sets are unordered, so you cannot index them — but you can loop and test membership. Understanding this changes how you design lookups.


Access Items

You cannot access items in a set by referring to an index or a key.

But you can loop through the set items using a for loop, or ask if a specified value is present in a set, by using the in keyword.

Example

thisset = {"apple", "banana", "cherry"}

for x in thisset:
  print(x)

Example

  thisset = {"apple", "banana", "cherry"}

print("banana"
  in thisset)

Example

  thisset = {"apple", "banana", "cherry"}

print("banana"
  not in thisset)

Change Items

Note: Once a set is created, you cannot change its items, but you can add new items.

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