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13_Set in Python

The document provides an introduction to Python sets, explaining their characteristics as unordered, mutable collections of unique, immutable items. It covers how to create sets, access their elements, update them, delete elements, and perform mathematical operations such as union, intersection, and difference. Key methods for manipulating sets, such as add(), remove(), discard(), and pop(), are also discussed.

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13_Set in Python

The document provides an introduction to Python sets, explaining their characteristics as unordered, mutable collections of unique, immutable items. It covers how to create sets, access their elements, update them, delete elements, and perform mathematical operations such as union, intersection, and difference. Key methods for manipulating sets, such as add(), remove(), discard(), and pop(), are also discussed.

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Set in Python

Learning objective
• Python Set - Introduction
• Creating a Set
• Can we access element of Set?
• Updating Set
• Delete Set Elements
• Mathematical Set operations
• Union
• Intersection
• Minus
Python Set - Introduction
• Collection of the unordered items. Each element in the set must
be unique, immutable, and the sets remove the duplicate
elements.
• Sets are mutable which means we can modify it after its creation.

• Unlike other collections in Python, there is no index attached to


the elements of the set, i.e., we cannot directly access any
element of the set by the index.

• However, we can print them all together, or we can get the list of
elements by looping through the set.
Creating a Set
• The set can be created by enclosing the comma separated
immutable items with the curly braces {}.
• Python also provides the set() method, which can be used to
create the set by the passed sequence.

Days = {"Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday",


"Saturday", "Sunday"}
print(Days)
print(type(Days))
Can we access elements of a Set?
• You cannot access elements by index as they are unordered
collections. However, you can check for the existence of an element in
a set using the in operator.

my_set = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
# Checking if an element exists in the set
element_to_check = 3
if element_to_check in my_set:
print(f"{element_to_check} exists in the set.")
else:
print(f"{element_to_check} does not exist in the set.")
Updating Set
• Sets are mutable, meaning you can add and remove elements from
them, but you cannot directly update an individual element by index
because sets are unordered collections.
• If you want to update a set, you typically add or remove elements.

my_set = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
# Adding an element to the set
my_set.add(6)
print("After adding 6:", my_set)
# Removing an element from the set
my_set.remove(3)
print("After removing 3:", my_set)
Deleting Set Elements
• Use remove() or discard() method to remove a specific element.
• discard() does not raise an error if the element is not present in the set.
• Also, use the pop() method to remove and return an arbitrary element from the set.

my_set = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
my_set.remove(3) # Remove a specific element
print("After removing 3:", my_set)
my_set.discard(5) # Discard a specific element
print("After discarding 5:", my_set)
# Remove and return an arbitrary element
removed_element = my_set.pop()
print("Removed element:", removed_element)
print("Set after pop operation:", my_set)
Mathematical Set operations
• You can perform various mathematical set operations using the built-in
set methods.
• Union: Returns a set containing all unique elements from both sets.

set1 = {1, 2, 3}
set2 = {3, 4, 5}
union_set = set1.union(set2)
print(union_set) # Output: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
Mathematical Set operations
• Intersect: Returns a set containing common elements from both sets.

set1 = {1, 2, 3}
set2 = {3, 4, 5}
intersection_set = set1.intersection(set2)
print(intersection_set) # Output: {3}
Mathematical Set operations
• Difference: Returns a set containing elements that are in the first set
but not in the second set.

set1 = {1, 2, 3}
set2 = {3, 4, 5}
difference_set = set1.difference(set2)
print(difference_set) # Output: {1, 2}
You must have learnt:
• Python Set - Introduction
• Creating a Set
• Can we access element of Set?
• Updating Set
• Delete Set Elements
• Mathematical Set operations
• Union
• Intersection
• Minus

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