Can Python's set absence of ordering be considered random order?
python, random, set, shuffle
Solution
No, it is not random. It is "arbitrarily ordered", which means that you cannot depend on it being either ordered or random.
Problem
I'd like to know if the absence of element ordering of the Python's built-in `set` structure is "random enough". For instance, taking the iterator of a set, can it be considered a shuffled view of its elements? (If it matters, I'm running Python 2.6.5 on a Windows host.)