Best way to make a list unique?

[Max M]

Eric Pederson wrote:
> I have 
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>>>>listA=[1,2,3,4,5,4,3,4,3,2,1]
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> and I want a list of only the unique members.
> 
> This seems inefficient, but works fine over my small sample lists:
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>>>>listA=[a for a in set(listA)]
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> Is there a more efficient approach for cases where listA is large?


no. Even though the code can be a little simpler:

listA = list(Set(listA))

You don't even need to convert it to a list. You can just iterate over 
the set.

 >>> la = [1,2,3,4,3,2,3,4,5]
 >>> from sets import Set
 >>> sa = Set(la)
 >>> for itm in sa:
...     print itm
1
2
3
4
5

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