removing duplication from a huge list.

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> Shanmuga Rajan <m.shanmugarajan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> f any one suggests better solution then i will be very happy.Advance thanks
> for any help.Shan
>
> Use a set.

To expand on that a bit:

counted_recs = set(rec[0] for rec in some_fun())
#or in Python 3.0:
counted_recs = {rec[0] for rec in some_fun()}

Cheers,
Chris

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