lists - append - unique and sorted

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Thu Jun 7 18:17:47 EDT 2007


Terry Reedy wrote:

> "Dan Bishop" <danb_83 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1181181710.879767.234090 at m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> If you don't need the list to be sorted until you're done building
>> it, you can just use: 
>> 
>> lst = sorted(set(lst))
> 
> ?? looks same as
> lst.sort()

You missed that the OP wants only unique values from the original list.

Tim Delaney



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