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Fri Oct 30 21:27:22 CET 2009 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093489.html

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:37:36PM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
> I don't like this.  It gives a set object a hidden state, something that
> AFAICS no other builtin has.  Iterating over an iterable is what iterators
> are for.

It also makes the object thread-unsafe; there's no way for two threads
to iterate over it at the same time.  It's a terrible idea to
introduce new things that won't work under threaded usage.

--amk

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