How to get index of element in Set object

Question

I have something like this:

numberList = {}         for item in results:             data = json.loads(item[0])             if data[key] in itemList:                 numberList[itemList.index(data[key])] += 1         print numberList 

where itemList is 'set' object. How can I access index of single element in it ?

Answer 1

A set is just an unordered collection of unique elements. So, an element is either in a set or it isn't. This means that no element in a set has an index.

Consider the set {1, 2, 3}. The set contains 3 elements: 1, 2, and 3. There's no concept of indices or order here; the set just contains those 3 values.

So, if data[key] in itemList returns True, then data[key] is an element of the itemList set, but there's no index that you can obtain.