Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net> wrote: > >>> x = [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6] > >>> x > [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6] > >>> list(set(x)) > [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9] > >>> > > Of course, this trick only works if all the list elements are > hashable. > > This might not be the best example since the result is sorted > "by accident", while other list(set(...)) results are not.
A minor change to your example makes it out of order even for integers: >>> x = [7, 8, 9, 1, 4, 1] >>> list(set(x)) [8, 9, 1, 4, 7] or for that mattter: >>> list(set([3, 32, 4, 32, 5, 9, 2, 6])) [32, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9] -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
