On 15 Dec 2005 12:26:07 -0800, Mystilleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a pattern that scans the entire string but avoids > returning duplicate matches. For example "cat", "cate", > "cater" may all well be valid matches, but I don't want > duplicate matches of any of them. I know I can filter the > list containing found matches myself, but that is somewhat > expensive for a list containing thousands of matches.
Probably the cheapest way of de-duping the list would be to dump it straight into a set, provided that you aren't concerned about the order. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
