On Aug 20, 10:45 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > 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
[(5,6), (6,7,8)] would become [(6,7,8)]. Thanks for the response -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
