Raymond,

Do you have around 10 minutes today to look at the patch I submitted in Issue 8743?  It appears to solve both this issue and that one, which have priorities critical and high, respectively.

It's a reasonably small patch: around 20 lines changed plus 20 lines added, all Python code.  Here's a direct link:

http://bugs.python.org/file20045/set-with-Set.patch

If it looks good to you, I'd like to commit it in time for 3.2b2 so that it gets as much exercise as possible before 3.2-final.

Earlier you had expressed that adding the __rand__ methods to collections.Set would be tricky issue, so I'm concerned that I have overlooked something important and obvious.

(Feedback from others is, of course, welcome as well)