Python Programming Language: How To Remove Elements From a Set

Jesse L
3 min readJun 30, 2022

Hi everyone, welcome back. In these examples, we will be going over how to remove elements from a set in Python. Sets can be used to store a collection of data. A set in Python does not allow duplicate values. The elements within a set are immutable, though elements can still be added or removed. The elements within a set are unordered and unindexed. With this introduction out of the way, let’s get into it.

Creating Set

Let’s start by creating our set:

mySet = {1, 2, 3}
print(mySet)
Output:
{1, 2, 3}

So now, we have a populated set with a few elements. We can verify that it was successfully created and populated by printing the set and checking the output. Now let’s see how we can remove elements.

Removing Elements From The Set

Let’s try to remove elements from the set. We can do this by using the built in remove() function that is provided. Let’s see an example:

mySet = {1, 2, 3}
mySet.remove(1)
print(mySet)
Output:
{2, 3}

In the example above, we can see that we removed an element from our set by using the remove() function. We can verify that it was successfully removed by…

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Jesse L
Jesse L

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