delete duplicates in list

[Dave Benjamin]

In article <mailman.285.1067612751.702.python-list at python.org>, Martin Chilvers wrote:
> Maybe I'm just old-school, and it won't win any prizes for speed but...
> 
>>>> a = [1, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 4]
>>>> reduce(lambda l, x: x not in l and l.append(x) or l, a, [])
> [1, 3, 2, 4]
> 
> ;^)

Hey, I wanna play this game too:

[d.setdefault(x, x) for d in [{}] for x in a if x not in d]

Now, try replacing that with "old-school" functionals. I'm stumped. =)

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