Right after hitting send I realized I fail to preserver order. If preserving order is important, we're back to using more complex code.
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:01 -0500, Python wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:51 -0800, Chris Hengge wrote: > > Anyone point me to something more efficient then > > > list2 = list(set(list1)) > > Older Pythons will force you to import sets and use sets.Set > > > for item in list1: > > if item not in list2: > > list2.append() > > > > This just seems to take a bit a time when there are thousands or > > dozens of thousands of records just to filter out the dozen or so > > copies.. > > > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
