"bahoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2:31 pm, "Matimus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It depends on your application, but a 'set' might really be what you
> > want, as opposed to a list.
> >
> > >>> s = set(["0024","haha","0024"])
> > >>> s
> >
> > set(["0024","haha"])>>> s.remove("0024")
> > >>> s
> >
> > set(["haha"])
>
> This sounds cool.
> But is there a command I can convert the "set" back to a "list"?
>
Here is a general way to find the duplicates:
>>> duplist
[1, 2, 3, 4, 'haha', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> copylist = duplist[:]
>>> for x in duplist:
del(copylist[copylist.index(x)])
if x in copylist:
fullset.remove(x)
>>> fullset
set([5, 'haha'])
>>> list(fullset)
[5, 'haha']
>>>
hth - Hendrik
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