Comparing sequences with range objects

[Joel Goldstick]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:19 AM Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at vub.be> wrote:
>
> I am working with a list of data from which I have to weed out duplicates.
> At the moment I keep for each entry a container with the other entries
> that are still possible duplicates.
>
> The problem is sometimes that is all the rest. I thought to use a range
> object for these cases. Unfortunatly I sometimes want to sort things
> and a range object is not comparable with a list or a tuple.
>
> So I have a list of items where each item is itself a list or range object.
> I of course could sort this by using list as a key function but that
> would defeat the purpose of using range objects for these cases.
>
> So what would be a relatively easy way to get the same result without wasting
> too much memory on entries that haven't any weeding done on them.
>
> --
> Antoon Pardon.
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I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do, but if your data
has no order, you can use set to remove the duplicates

-- 
Joel Goldstick