minor patch using the set builtin

[Mario Pernici]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Martin Pool wrote:

> >  -one can use  the built-ins basestring and set instead of
> >   types.StringTypes and sets.Set respectively (see attached patch);
> 
> Actually, we can only use the set builtin in Python2.4 and later; for
> 2.3 which is still supported by bzr we need to use sets.Set.  
> (I thought they would fold down to the same thing, but apparently 
> sets.Set still gives the one written on top of a dict, which is probably
> a lot slower.)
> 
The patch should work also in Python2.3 :
$ python2.3
>>> try: set
... except NameError: from sets import Set as set
... 
>>> a = set([1,2])
>>> 1 in a
True

Mario