odeits: > How big of a list are we talking about? If the list is so big that the > entire list cannot fit in memory at the same time this approach wont > work e.g. removing duplicate lines from a very large file.
If the data are lines of a file, and keeping the original order isn't important, then the first to try may be to use the unix (or cygwin on Windows) commands sort and uniq. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
