Week 9.2 (SET)

CONTENTS
01 02 03
SET SET CREATION SET METHODS
04 05 06
SET MUTATION FROZEN SET
SET OPERATIONS
Set-{}
• A Python set is the collection of the unordered heterogenous
items.
• Set elements are unique. Duplicate elements are not allowed.
• A set is mutable, but the elements contained in the set must be of Set is mutable but
an immutable type. its element must
be immutable
• There is no index attached to the elements of the set.
• Set items are unordered, unchangeable, and do not allow
duplicate values.
• Set items are unchangeable, meaning that we cannot change the
items after the set has been created. Once a set is created, you
cannot change its items, but you can remove items and add new Eg:{2,4,1,7,8,9}
items.
Set Creation
⮚ 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.
This Clearly shows that a set contains

unordered and unique elements
Set Creation(Cont…)
Output is unordered
Access the items in set
Built-in method-Adding Elements
The add() method is used to add a single
element to the set.
Adding
Element
The update() method is used to add multiple

elements to the set
Cont….
The object in the update() method does not have to be a set, it can be any iterable object (tuples, lists,
dictionaries etc.).
Built-in method-Deleting Elements
The discard method is used to remove an
item from the set.
Deleting
Element
The remove method is used to remove an item

from the set
Cont…
The pop() method to remove an item, but this method will remove
the last item. Remember that sets are unordered, so you will not know what
item that gets removed.
The return value of the pop() method is the removed item.
The clear() method empties the set

Cont….
The del keyword will delete the set completely
Python Set Operations
Size membership and Union and Intersection
Superset and subset
identity
Python Set Operations[Example]
Example:
Output : Guess your output

Example:

Example:

Difference and Symm-
Difference Copy()
Set Mutation Operations
⮚ We have seen Union ,Intersection,difference,symmetric difference operations.
⮚ These operations do not make any changes or mutations to the set .
⮚ To create mutations to the set we can use following operations .

➢ isdisjoint() : Returns whether two sets have a intersection or not
➢ issubset() :Returns whether another set contains this set or not
➢ issuperset() :Returns whether this set contains another set or not
Frozenset
⮚ The frozen sets are the immutable form of the normal sets.
⮚ The elements of the frozen set cannot be changed after the creation.
⮚ We cannot change or append the content of the frozen sets by using the methods
like add() or remove().
⮚ The frozenset() method is used to create the frozenset object.
⮚ The iterable sequence is passed into this method which is converted into the
frozen set as a return type of the method.
Frozenset
Hint
Point 1:The set list is unordered, so the result will display the items in a
random order.
x = set(("apple", "banana", "cherry"))

print(x)
{'banana', 'apple', 'cherry'}

Hint
Point 2:Sets cannot have two items with the same value.
thisset = {"apple", "banana", "cherry", "apple"}
print(thisset)
{'banana', 'cherry', 'apple'}

Hint
Point 3: To Get the Length of a Set,use the len() function.
thisset = {"apple", "banana", "cherry", "apple"}

print(len(thisset))
3
3
Example 1
Write a Python program that takes a complete sentence as an input and remove
duplicate word in it and then counts all the words which have a length greater than 3.
Input:
“we are good are we good”
Output:
we are good
Count=1
Example 2
Given a sorted linked list, delete all duplicates such that each element appear only once.
Example 1:
Input:
112
Output:
12
Example 2:
Input:
11233
Output:
123
Example 3
Given two lists, print all the common element of two lists.
Note: Sort the list before printing.
Examples:
Input :
12345
56789
Output :
5
Input :
12345
6789
Output :
No common elements
Example 4
Two strings are said to be complete if on concatenation, they contain all the 26 English
alphabets. For example, “abcdefghi” and “jklmnopqrstuvwxyz” are complete as they
together have all characters from ‘a’ to ‘z’.

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CONTENTS

This Clearly shows that a set contains

The update() method is used to add multiple

The remove method is used to remove an item

The clear() method empties the set

Output : Guess your output

Output : Guess your output

Output : Guess your output

⮚ These operations do not make any changes or mutations to the set .

⮚ To create mutations to the set we can use following operations .

⮚ The frozenset() method is used to create the frozenset object.

x = set(("apple", "banana", "cherry"))

{'banana', 'apple', 'cherry'}

{'banana', 'cherry', 'apple'}

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

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