--- a/sets/quickref.tex Tue Oct 12 11:09:52 2010 +0530
+++ b/sets/quickref.tex Tue Oct 12 11:19:09 2010 +0530
@@ -1,11 +1,23 @@
-Creating a tuple:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| t = (1, "hello", 2.5)|}
+Creating a set:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| p10 = set([2, 3, 5, 7]) |t}
-Accessing elements of tuples:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| t[index] Ex: t[2]|}
+Creating set from a tuple or list:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| s = set(var_name)|}
+
+Operations on sets. Ex: UNION:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| s1 \| s2 |}
+
+Other operations available:\\
-Accessing slices of tuples:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| t[start:stop:step]|}
+\begin{lstlising}
+\item "\&" -- Intersection
+\item "-" -- Difference
+\item "\^" -- Symmetric Difference
+\item "<" -- Subset
+\end{lstlisting}
-Swapping values:\\
-{\ex \lstinline| a, b = b, a|}
+Checking for containership:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| x in p10|}
+
+Finding the no.of elements:\\
+{\ex \lstinline| len(p10)|}
--- a/sets/script.rst Tue Oct 12 11:09:52 2010 +0530
+++ b/sets/script.rst Tue Oct 12 11:19:09 2010 +0530
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
.. Objectives
.. ----------
-.. A - Students and teachers from Science and engineering backgrounds
- B - Will learn what are tuples and why they are needed
- Will learn the various methods of accessing elements in tuples
- C -
- D -
+.. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to
+
+.. * Create sets from lists
+.. * Perform union, intersection and symmetric difference operations
+.. * Check if a set is a subset of other
+.. * understand various similarities with lists like length and containership
+
.. Prerequisites
.. -------------