[Tutor] List Dup-Elim Method?

[Doug Stanfield]

I think the Python idiom I've seen for this uses a dictionary as a temporary
holder.  The dictionary needs unique keys so the following will leave a list
without duplicates:

theDict = {}
theList = [1, 2, 4, 6, 21, 3, 8, 5, 3, 8]
for element in theList:
    theDict[element] = None
theList = theDict.keys()

-Doug-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Larsen [mailto:curtis.larsen@Covance.Com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:50 AM
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> Subject: [Tutor] List Dup-Elim Method?
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> 
> Is there an easy way to eliminate duplicate elements in a list?
> (A list method I missed, maybe?)
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Curtis
>  
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