Comparing sequences with range objects

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 7/04/2022 om 16:08 schreef 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

Sorry I wasn't clear. The data contains information about persons. But not
all records need to be complete. So a person can occur multiple times in
the list, while the records are all different because they are missing
different bits.

So all records with the same firstname can be duplicates. But if I have
a record in which the firstname is missing, it can at that point be
a duplicate of all other records.

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Antoon Pardon