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What "environment" means in typeof(object) result

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Description

In my main.py, I have

set_a = set(['A', 'B', 'C'])
set_b = set(['A', 'C', 'D'])

In my main.R script,

library(reticulate);
use_python("/usr/local/bin/python3");
source_python("main.py")
print(typeof(set_a))

I will get

[1] "environment"

I am not sure what it means. Does it support the conversion of python's set data type ?

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Reproduce the example using main.py and main.R, starting with source_python("main.py") and typeof(set_a). Read reticulate's object-conversion documentation and relevant tests, if present, to determine what an R environment represents and whether Python sets are converted. Done means documenting the observed behavior and supported conversion path.

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Tech stack
python, r
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tooling
Issue type
Documentation
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