[Pythonmac-SIG] Duplicate items in a list

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 5:18 AM -0700 8/9/99, Pieter Claerhout wrote:

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

Assuming the items are hashable, the best way (AFAIK) is to stuff them into
a dictionary, then get the dictionary's keys().

Cheers,
-- Joe

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