Identifying Compact Sets in the Slitted and Moore Planes: What's the Method?

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Is there any easy way to find all the compact sets of 1) the slitted plane and 2) the Moore plane?

1) defined as the topology generated by a base consisting of z\cup A where A is a disc about z with finitely many lines deleted. I believe the compact sets in this topology coincide with the usual real line. How do I prove this?

2) (rough sketch) I know that a closed, bounded set disjoint from the x-axis is compact. I guess if a set touched the x-axis in an infinite number of points, it would not be compact. So the compact sets consisting of a closed, bounded set disjoint from the x-axis along with finitely many points on the x-axis is compact?
 
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1) I do not think so. A closed section of disc should be compact and is no real line.
2) The number of points on the ##x-## axis shouldn't play a role here.
 
A sphere as topological manifold can be defined by gluing together the boundary of two disk. Basically one starts assigning each disk the subspace topology from ##\mathbb R^2## and then taking the quotient topology obtained by gluing their boundaries. Starting from the above definition of 2-sphere as topological manifold, shows that it is homeomorphic to the "embedded" sphere understood as subset of ##\mathbb R^3## in the subspace topology.
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