原文地址：http://docs.pythontab.com/python/python3.4/datastructures.html#tut-tuples
集合是一个无序不重复元素的集。
基本功能包括关系测试和消除重复元素。集合对象还支持 union（联合），intersection（交），difference（差）和 sysmmetric difference（对称差集）等数学运算。
大括号或 set() 函数可以用来创建集合。
注意：想要创建空集合，你必须使用 set() 而不是 {}。后者用于创建空字典。
>>> basket = {‘apple‘, ‘orange‘, ‘apple‘, ‘pear‘, ‘orange‘, ‘banana‘}
>>> print(basket) # show that duplicates have been removed
{‘orange‘, ‘banana‘, ‘pear‘, ‘apple‘}
>>> ‘orange‘ in basket # fast membership testing
True
>>> ‘crabgrass‘ in basket
False
>>> # Demonstrate set operations on unique letters from two words
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>>> a = set(‘abracadabra‘)
>>> b = set(‘alacazam‘)
>>> a # unique letters in a
{‘a‘, ‘r‘, ‘b‘, ‘c‘, ‘d‘}
>>> a - b # letters in a but not in b
{‘r‘, ‘d‘, ‘b‘}
>>> a | b # letters in either a or b
{‘a‘, ‘c‘, ‘r‘, ‘d‘, ‘b‘, ‘m‘, ‘z‘, ‘l‘}
>>> a & b # letters in both a and b
{‘a‘, ‘c‘}
>>> a ^ b # letters in a or b but not both
{‘r‘, ‘d‘, ‘b‘, ‘m‘, ‘z‘, ‘l‘}
原文：http://www.cnblogs.com/nzyjlr/p/4315919.html