Peter Otten wrote: > Rubinho wrote: > > > I've a list with duplicate members and I need to make each entry > > unique. > > > > I've come up with two ways of doing it and I'd like some input on what > > would be considered more pythonic (or at least best practice). > > > > Method 1 (the traditional approach) > > > > for x in mylist: > > if mylist.count(x) > 1: > > mylist.remove(x) > > That would be an odd tradition:
By tradition I wasn't really talking Python tradition; what I meant was that the above pattern is similar to what would be generated by people used to traditional programming languages. > > >>> mylist = [1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3] > >>> for x in mylist: > ... if mylist.count(x) > 1: > ... mylist.remove(x) > ... > >>> mylist > [2, 1, 2, 3] # oops! But you're absolutely right, it doesn't work! Oops indeed :) I've gone with Thomas's suggestion above of: mylist=list(set(mylist)) Thanks, Robin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
