Somewhat less sarcastic... I did omg find that answer, and I didn't feel like this was such a unique thing to do that I needed to re-invent the wheel by building several methods to do something that a common library should already have.
On 11/30/06, Jordan Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Hengge wrote: > Anyone point me to something more efficient then > > 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. somewhat unsurprisingly, the first thing google lists for "python list duplicates" is a quite good ASPN recipe to do just what you want. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52560
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