Use curly braces to initialize a Set in Python

Question

I\'m learning python, and I have a novice question about initializing sets. Through testing, I\'ve discovered that a set can be initialized like so:

my_set          


        

Answer 1

Compare also the difference between {} and set() with a single word argument.

>>> a = set('aardvark')
>>> a
{'d', 'v', 'a', 'r', 'k'} 
>>> b = {'aardvark'}
>>> b
{'aardvark'}

but both a and b are sets of course.