Can Python's set absence of ordering be considered random order?

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Published on 2010-05-18T19:17:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 19:40 UTC
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Hello people.

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.)

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