What's the best way to delete duplicated entries in a list?
Andy McKay
andym at ActiveState.com
Sat Jul 21 13:18:50 EDT 2001
Tim Peters wrote a good recipe to do just that:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52560
Cheers.
--
Andy McKay.
----- Original Message -----
From: <gradha at iname.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 6:54 AM
Subject: What's the best way to delete duplicated entries in a list?
> 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?
>
> --
> Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz gradha at terra.es http://gradha.infierno.org
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