[Tutor] Sort a Set

[Terry Carroll]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Jonas Melian wrote:

> I get a list of repeated numbers  [24, 24, 24, 16, 16, 15, 15 ]
> Is possible get it without repeated numbers, without using set()?
> 
> If I use set, then the list is unsorted and i cann't sorting it.

Converting it to a set will eliminate dupes, and converting it back to 
list will make it sortable.

I don't know if you're in a position to rely on the sortedness of the 
input data, but even if not, this works:

>>> l=[24, 24, 15, 16, 16, 15, 24]
>>> l=sorted(list(set(l)), reverse=True)
>>> l
[24, 16, 15]