Wrap your initial node in list or tuple:
exl_set = set([a.node])
to not have it interpreted as a sequence of values.
The set()
constructor interprets the argument as an iterable and will take all values in that iterable to add to the set; from the documentation:
class
set([iterable])
:
Return a new set or frozenset object whose elements are taken fromiterable
.
Demo:
>>> node = ('1456030', '-9221969')
>>> set(node)
set(['1456030', '-9221969'])
>>> set([node])
set([('1456030', '-9221969')])
>>> len(set([node]))
1
Alternatively, create an empty set and use set.add()
exclusively:
exl_set = set()
exl_set.add(a.node)
exl_set.add(b.node)