pulling set of unique values from a list

[Premshree Pillai]

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 --- Ben Davies <ben.m.davies at baesystems.com> wrote: >
I need to get [1,2,3] from [1,1,1,2,2,3,3] with as
> little effort possible
> for my CPU (and keyboard).
> I'd half expected there to be a list.values method
> to do this, but there
> isn't so I've have had to use a dictionary object:
> 
> >>> l=[1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3]
> >>> dict.fromkeys(l).keys()
> [1, 2, 3]
> 
> of course another way would be to do it 'by hand'
> like this:
> 
> >>> l=[1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3]
> >>> values=[]
> ... for v in l:
> ...     if not v in values: values.append(v)
> >>> values
> [1, 2, 3]
> 
> personally I prefer the dictionary one-liner, but
> with the second iterative
> way it is probably more obvious what the code is
> doing (and perhaps more
> efficient?).
> Is there any better way to do this that I've missed,
> I was kind of surprised
> not to find a values() method on the built-in list
> type?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-Premshree
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