Add list to set?

Tested on Python 2.6 interpreter:

>>> a=set('abcde')
>>> a
set(['a', 'c', 'b', 'e', 'd'])
>>> l=['f','g']
>>> l
['f', 'g']
>>> a.add(l)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#35>", line 1, in <module>
    a.add(l)
TypeError: list objects are unhashable

I think that I can’t add the list to the set because there’s no way Python can tell If I have added the same list twice. Is there a workaround?

EDIT: I want to add the list itself, not its elements.