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Python Set Operations Explained: From Theory to Real-Time Applications

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A  set  in Python is an unordered collection of unique elements. It is useful when storing distinct values and performing operations like union, intersection, or difference. Real-Time Example: Removing Duplicate Customer Emails in a Marketing Campaign Imagine you are working on an email marketing campaign for your company. You have a list of customer emails, but some are duplicated. Using a set , you can remove duplicates efficiently before sending emails. Code Example: # List of customer emails (some duplicates) customer_emails = [ "alice@example.com" , "bob@example.com" , "charlie@example.com" , "alice@example.com" , "david@example.com" , "bob@example.com" ] # Convert list to a set to remove duplicates unique_emails = set (customer_emails) # Convert back to a list (if needed) unique_email_list = list (unique_emails) # Print the unique emails print ( "Unique customer emails:" , unique_email_list) Ou...

How to Delete an Item from a Set in Python: Best Example

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Set is a built-in data type in Python. Furthermore, it is an unordered collection without duplicate items. Here are the two methods that explain to delete an item from a Set. Methods to delete an item from a Set discard remove Discrd Vs. Remove discard() will not raise an error if the item to remove does not exist. The remove() will raise an error if the item does not exist. Explanation to discard and remove methods Python program: #Prints all the Set items food = {"pasta", "burger", "hot dog", "pizza"} print(food) # Prints the Set items without pasta food.discard("pasta") print(food) # Prints the Set items without burger and pasta food.remove("burger") print(food) # The next two lines try to remove an item that isn't in the set! food.discard("pasta")  # this will not report an error food.remove("pasta")   # this will report an error The output: {'pasta', 'burger', 'pizza', '...