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+# This file is released under the GNU GPL, version 3 or a later revision.
+# For further details see the COPYING file
+
+from collections.abc import Set
+
+# for backward compatibility with Python <3.7
+from collections import OrderedDict
+
+
+class OrderedSet(Set):
+    """
+    Ordered collection of distinct hashable objects.
+    Taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/10006674
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, iterable=()):
+        self.d = OrderedDict.fromkeys(iterable)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self.d)
+
+    def __contains__(self, element):
+        return element in self.d
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return iter(self.d)
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return str(list(self))