from sets import Set for akey in grp.keys(): grp[akey] = list(Set(grp[akey]))
On Friday 11 March 2005 03:15 pm, Leeds, Mark wrote: > I have a dictionary grp that has lists > > for each element ( excuse my terminology if it's > > incorrect). > > > > So gname might be automobiles, finance, construction etc > > and grp[gname] is a list and this list > > has elements that are strings > > such as ["AAA","BBB","AAA","CCC"] > > > > Is there a quick way to loop through > > the grp dictionary and reduce the lists > > so that each only contains unique elements ? > > > > thanks -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list