how to remove multiple occurrences of a string within a list?

[Amit Khemka]

On 3 Apr 2007 11:20:33 -0700, bahoo <b83503104 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a list like ['0024', 'haha', '0024']
> and as output I want ['haha']
>
> If I
> myList.remove('0024')
>
> then only the first instance of '0024' is removed.

To remove all items with multiple occurances in myList:

list(set(myList) - set([x for x in myList if myList.count(x)>1]))

cheers,
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