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		uraza on March 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adding Empty Set Literals to Python set = <> looks like the other empty container literals, but it's not consistent with the literal notation for sets with one or more elements: my_set = {1,2,3}.

sambe on March 16, 2013 [–]

What about supporting <1, 2, 3> as well, and eventually deprecating the existing way? The end result would be much nicer.

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