On 2009-02-27, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peter Billam <pe...@www.pjb.com.au> wrote: >> On 2009-02-26, Clarendon <jine...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> How do you delete all 'a's? >> >> L2 = list(set(L)) >> works for me... > > A. That doesn't by itself remove all the 'a's, although it does > remove all but 1 'a' > B. That also removes all but one instance of *everything* in the > list, not just 'a' > C. That is lossy in that it completely loses the ordering of the > original list
Sorry, points taken... Regards, Peter -- Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list