Set in Python

Collection of unordered and unindexed elements. No duplicate element is allowed.
Example : set of user IDs of any club membership, there can't be any duplicate values, they are not in any order and there is no indexing

Declaring a set

my_set={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
print(my_set)
Output
{'Alex', 'Ronald', 'John'}

Blank Set

my_set=set() # declaring a blank set
my_set.add('alex') # adding element 
print(my_set)
We can't dsiplay elements based on position as set is unindexed.
my_set={"Alex","Ronald","John"}
print(my_set[1])
Above code will generate error
Python data structure using set an unordered unindexed and unique elements, methods and functions

Displaying all items by looping

We used for loop to display all items of the set.
my_set={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
for i in my_set:
    print(i)
Output is here
Alex
Ronald
John

Searching element

my_set={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
if 'John' in my_set:
 print("Yes, Present in set")
else:
 print("No , not present in set")
Output is here
Yes, Present in set
Set Operations in Python
union()intersection()difference()symmetric_difference()
A={1,2,3}
B={3,4,5}
A={1,2,3}
B={3,4,5}
A={1,2,3}
B={3,4,5}
A={1,2,3}
B={3,4,5}
A | B
A.union(B)
A & B
A.intersection(B)
A - B
A.difference(B)
A ^ B
A.symmetric_difference(B)
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}{3}{1, 2}{1, 2, 4, 5}

Python set operations union, intersection, difference, symmetric_difference & updating the main set

Add , remove , update elements

Methods of set object
Method Description
add(x) Add element x to the set
update(x) Add iterable elements of x to the set
clear() Removes all elements of the set
copy() Creating a copy of the set
discard() Remove element from the set
isdisjoint() Check for presence of common element
issubset() Check for presence of all elements
issuperset() Check for presence of all elements
pop() Remove random element from the set
remove() Remove element from the set

Number of elements in the set

len() returns number of elements present in a set
my_set={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
print("Number of elements: ",len(my_set))
Output is here
Number of elements: 3

len(), max(),min(),sum()

my_set={5,3,7,9,4}
print("Maximum value : ",max(my_set))
print("Minimum value : ",min(my_set))
print("Number of elements : ",len(my_set))
print("Sum of elements : ",sum(my_set))
Output
Maximum value :  9
Minimum value :  3
Number of elements :  5
Sum of elements :  28

Deleting set

my_set={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
del my_set
print("Number of elements: ",len(my_set))
The last line will create error as we are deleting the set before this line.

Joint two sets by union()

We will use union() mehtod to join two sets and print final array
my_set1={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
my_set2={'Ron','Geek'}
my_set=my_set1.union(my_set2)
print(my_set)
Output is here
{'Ronald', 'Geek', 'Alex', 'John', 'Ron'}
We can use difference() to find out difference of first and second array with respect to first array.
my_set1={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
my_set2={'Ron','Ronald'}
my_set=my_set1.difference(my_set2)
print(my_set)
Output is here
{'John', 'Alex'}
We can use intersection() to get common element between two or more sets
my_set1={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
my_set2={'Ron','Alex'}
my_set=my_set1.intersection(my_set2)
print(my_set)
Output is
{'Alex'}
With three sets
my_set1={'a','b','c'}
my_set2={'d','b','a'}
my_set3={'f','b','a'}
my_set=my_set1.intersection(my_set2,my_set3)
print(my_set)
Output
{'b', 'a'}
intersection_update() only keeps common elements and removes other.
my_set1={'Alex','Ronald','John'}
my_set2={'Ron','Ronald'}
my_set1.intersection_update(my_set2)
print(my_set1)
Output is here
{'Ronald'}
issubset() returns true if all elements are present inside another set.
my_set1={'a','b','c'}
my_set2={'d','b','a','f','c'}
my_set=my_set1.issubset(my_set2)
print(my_set)
Output
True
issuperset() To get true if all elements of subset present in main set.
my_set1={'d','b','a','f','c'}
my_set2={'a','b','c'}
my_set=my_set1.issuperset(my_set2)
print(my_set)
Output
True


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