Python - access set items

In this article, we would like to show you how to access set items in Python.

You can't directly access set items by referring to an index or a key. What you can do is to iterate through the set to process its items or check if the set contains a specific value.

In below example, we use simple for loop to iterate through set and print the values.

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my_set = {'A', 'B', 'C'}

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for x in my_set:

    print(x)

Output:

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A

B

C

In below, example we use in keyword to check if our set contains B value.

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my_set = {'A', 'B', 'C'}

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print('B' in my_set)  # True

Output:

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True