[Tutor] Best method for filtering lists in lists...

Roel Schroeven rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm
Sat Dec 16 11:54:09 CET 2006


Alan Gauld schreef:
> "Chris Hengge" <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> I'm terming a redundant list just like I posted in the original 
>> message:
>> [[1,2,3], [4,5,6],[1,2,3]]
>>
>> [0][0] and [0][2] are redundant, so I only want to keep one of them.
> 
> In that case put the inner lists in a Set. That will eliminate 
> duplicates.

That won't work: list objects are unhashable so you can't put them in a 
set. You'll have to convert them to tuples first.

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Roel Schroeven



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