What's the best way to delete duplicated entries in a list?

[gradha at iname.com]

Hi.

Given a list of strings, I am doing the following to delete duplicated
entries:

my_list.sort()
x = 0
while x < len (my_list) - 1:
	if my_list[x] == my_list[x+1]:
		del my_list[x+1]
	else:
		x = x + 1

Is there some more elegant, fast, algorithm? Is this the only one
obvious way to do it?
		
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