delete items from a set while iterating over it

Question

I have a set myset, and I have a function which iterates over it to perform some operation on its items and this operation ultimately deletes the item from the

Answer 1

Use the copy library to make a copy of the set, iterate over the copy and remove from the original one. In case you want to stick to the for loop and you want to iterate over one element only once - comes in handy if you don't necessarily want to remove all the elements.

import copy
for item in copy.copy(myset):
    myset.remove(item)