Jerry Hill wrote: > On 1/28/07, Scripter47 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can someone plz make a function for that takes a array, and then search >> in it for duplicates, if it finds 2 or more items thats the same string >> then delete all except 1. > > >>> myList = [1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 10] > >>> myList = list(set(myList)) > >>> print myList > [8, 1, 2, 4, 10] > > Maintaining sort order is left as an exercise for the reader.
A "simple" two-liner that maintains order: >>> items = [1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 10] >>> seen = set() >>> [x for x in items if x not in seen and not seen.add(x)] [1, 2, 4, 8, 10] Mmm... what a beautiful abuse of "and". ;-) STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
