I've noticed the table of the time complexity of set operations on the python official website. But i just wanna ask what's the time complexity of converting a list to a set, for instance,
l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
s = set(l)
I kind of know that this is actually a hash table, but how exactly does it work? Is it O(n) then?
Yes. Iterating over a list is
O(n)
and adding each element to the hash set isO(1)
, so the total operation isO(n)
.