Question on lists

Kristofer Pettijohn kristofer at cybernetik.net
Wed Jul 28 02:31:01 EDT 2004


Andrew Bennetts <andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org> wrote:
> Nothing builtin that I know of, but it's trivial to write:
> 
>    def uniq(iterable):
>        """Remove consecutive duplicates from a sequence."""
>    
>        prev = object()
>        for element in iterable:
>            if element != prev:
>                prev = element
>                yield element

Thank you!  Easier than I thought.  I don't know why I make things
so hard on myself.

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Kristofer Pettijohn
kristofer at cybernetik.net



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