On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Jurgens de Bruin <debrui...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a list of tuples: > > [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),] > > I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one > element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the > list.
So, would [(5,6), (6,7,8)] become [(6,7,8)] ? If no, then I believe you're trying to solve the set covering problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_cover_problem Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
