[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have many set objects some of which can contain same group of object > while others can be subset of the other. Given a list of sets, > I need to get a list of unique sets such that non of the set is an > subset of another or contain exactly the same members. > > Tried to do the following: > s1=set(['a','b','c']) > s2=set(['a','c']) > s3=set(['a','d','e','f']) > s4=set(['r','k','l']) > s5=set(['r','k','l']) > L=[s1,s2,s3,s4,s5] > ----------------------- > cleaned-up list should contain s1, s3, s5
This should do the trick: result = [] for s1 in L: for s2 in result: if s1 <= s2: break else: result.append(s1) print result Raymond Hettinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list