On Sep 29, 8:04 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip]
> And I have another question. Which is the most efficient way to check if there > are duplicate items in a list ? The items in the list may cannot be hashed, so > set() may not work on the list. The following classic by Tim Peters answers the question "How do I remove duplicate items from a list". http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52560 It should help -- provided of course that you mean "duplicates" in the sense that two Python objects a and b are duplicates iff a == b. If you mean duplicates in a fuzzier sense e.g. "Mao Zedong" and "Mao Tse-Tung", the problem gets harder ... HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
