SET

  • If the user wants to represent a group of unique values as a single entity then the user should go for the set.
  • In set, Duplicates are not allowed like in Java. Insertion order is also not preserved.
  • Indexing and slicing are alse not allowed for the set.
  • Set objects are mutable.
How will you create Set?
  1. l = [10,20,30,40,10,20,10]
  2. s=set(l)
  3. print(s)
Important functions of set:
  1. add(x):
    Adds item x to the set
    Eg:
  2. s={10,20}
  3. s.add(40);
  4. update(x,y,z):
    To add multiple items to the set.

Eg:

  1. s={10,20,30}
  2. l=[40,50]
  3. s.update(l,range(5))

copy():
Returns copy of the set.
It is cloned object.

pop():
It removes and returns some random element from the set.
Eg:

  1. s={40,10,20}
  2. print(s)
  3. print(s.pop())
  4. print(s)
  5. Output
  6. {40, 10, 20}
  7. 40
  8. {10, 20}

clear():
To remove all elements from the Set.

  1. s={10,20,30}
  2. print(s)
  3. s.clear()

1.union():
x.union(y)

intersection():
x.intersection(y) or x&y
Returns common elements present in both x and y

difference():
x.difference(y)

set objects won’t support indexing and slicing:

Eg:
s={10,20,30,40}
print(s[0]) ==>TypeError: ‘set’ object does not support indexing
print(s[1:3]) ==>TypeError: ‘set’ object is not subscriptable

Create an empty set. Write a program that adds two new names to this set, modifies one existing name, and deletes one name existing in it.

s = set()
s.add('vikas')
s.add('ram')
s.remove('vikas')
s.add('Alex')
s.remove('ram')
Write a program to create a set of 5 randomly generated numbers in the range 10 to 30. Find how many of these numbers are less than 20. Delete all numbers which are greater than 25.
s = set()
while True:
 s.add(random.randint(10, 30))
 if len(s) == 5:
    break
print('set:', s)
t = set()
count = 0
for item in s:
if item < 20:
   count += 1
if item <= 25:
   t.add(item)

s = t
print('Count of nos. less than 20:', count)
print('Set after deleting elements > 25: ', s)
Python Set QUIZ

SET Program