How to Create a Set in Python

In this article, we show how to create a set in Python.

A set in Python is a list of unique values.

In a set, no value can be repeated more than once.

So if we have the following code, we will have the following output.

>>> set1= {1,2,3,4} >>> set1 {1,2,3,4} >>> set2= {1,2,4,4,4,5,6,6,6,6} >>> set2 {1,2,4,5,6}

So you can see that a set is a collection of unique elements. If you specify multiple elements of the same value in a set, the set will get rid of all duplicate elements and just store one unique element.

So sets are actually pretty useful if you want to get rid of duplicate values in a list and only retain unique values.

And this is how a set can be created in Python.

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