removing common elemets in a list

[Michael Bentley]

On May 16, 2007, at 10:36 AM, John Zenger wrote:

> On May 16, 2:17 am, saif.shak... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>      Suppose i have a list v which collects some numbers,how do i
>> remove the common elements from it ,without using the set() opeartor.
>>                                                       Thanks
>
> Submit this as your homework answer -- it will blow your TA's mind!
>
> import base64
> def uniq(v):
> 	return
> eval(base64.b64decode 
> ('c29ydGVkKGxpc3Qoc2V0KHYpKSxrZXk9bGFtYmRhIHg6di5pbmRleCh4KSk='),local 
> s())

Nice!  But I think he said he couldn't use set() ;-)