Python set operations (union, intersection, difference and symmetric difference)

Last Updated : 18 Dec, 2017

This article demonstrates different operations on Python sets.
Examples:

Input :
A = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}
B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

Output :
 Union : [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
 Intersection : [2, 4]
 Difference : [8, 0, 6]
 Symmetric difference : [0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8]

In Python, below quick operands can be used for different operations.

| for union.
& for intersection.
– for difference
^ for symmetric difference

# Program to perform different set operations 
# as we do in  mathematics 
  
# sets are define 
A = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}; 
B = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; 
  
# union 
print("Union :", A | B) 
  
# intersection 
print("Intersection :", A & B) 
  
# difference 
print("Difference :", A - B) 
  
# symmetric difference 
print("Symmetric difference :", A ^ B) 

Output:

('Union :', set([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]))
('Intersection :', set([2, 4]))
('Difference :', set([8, 0, 6]))
('Symmetric difference :', set([0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8]))

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