[Pythonmac-SIG] Duplicate items in a list

[Anthony M. Ingraldi]

On Monday, August 9, 1999, Pieter Claerhout wrote:

> does anyone know an easy way to delete duplicate items from a list?
>

This may not be the most efficient way, but anyway...

def remove_duplicates(aList):
     newList = []
     for item in aList:
         if not (item in newList):
             newList.append(item)
     return newList

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