Remove duplicates from list

[Chris Lambacher]

It is very unclear what you are trying to do.  Why not explain what
you want the output to be.  You will get better answers.

As a first stab at what you are doing wrong:
collect = item.Monday + item.Tuesday + item.Wednesday + item.Thursday
+ item.Friday + item.Saturday + item.Sunday

The above is string addition and the result is a string.  The ouput
you provide is in fact a list with no duplicates, i.e. there are no
two strings the same.

If order is not important to you a structure that will give you an
'unordered list with no duplicates' is a set (available in the std
library in Python 2.3 and 2.4, see the cookbook for recipies for
earlier versions of Python).  Note that sets are unordered, i.e. no
guarentee is made about what order the elements are accessed in when
you iterate over them.

-Chris

On 6/9/05, Derek Perriero <derek.perriero at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been un-triumphantly trying to get a list of mine to have no repeats in
> it.   First, I'm pulling attributes from Zope and forming a list.  Next, I'm
>  pulling those same values and comparing them against the same list and if
> the values equal each other and are not already in the list, they append to
> my 'nodupes' list.  My current result is showing what I put in I am getting
> out.  Below the code is my output of 'nodupes' list.  Here's the snippet.  
>  
>  regHours  = context.getMainPrint();  <---attributes from Zope
>  
>  libslist       = []
>  nodupes    = []
>  
>  #collect libraries
>  for libs in regHours:
>    cache = libs.Monday + libs.Tuesday + libs.Wednesday + libs.Thursday +
> libs.Friday + libs.Saturday + libs.Sunday
>    libslist.append(cache)
>  
>  #pull repeated values
>  for item in regHours:
>    collect = item.Monday + item.Tuesday + item.Wednesday + item.Thursday +
> item.Friday + item.Saturday + item.Sunday
>    libName = item.libraryName
>  
>    for libs in libslist:   
>      if collect == libs and libs not in nodupes:
>        nodupes.append(libs)
>  
>  My Current Output:
>  ['8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm', '8am -
> 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pmClosed8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm', '8am - 9pm8am -
> 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pmClosed', '9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am -
> 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 6pm12pm - 6pm', '9am - 5pm9am - 5pm9am - 5pm9am -
> 5pm9am - 5pmClosedClosed', '10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am -
> 5pm10am - 5pmClosed']
>  
>  Thanks
>  
>  
>  
>  
> 
> -- 
> Perriero, Derek
> derek.perriero at gmail.com
>  
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> 
> 


-- 
Christopher Lambacher
lambacck at computer.org