[Tutor] setting lists

[Kent Johnson]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> The solution is to turn the list into something immutable. One way would 
> be to convert the lists to tuples:
> n1 = list(set(tuple(i) for i in n))
> 
> This gives you a list of tuples, if you need a list of lists you will 
> have to convert back which you can do with a list comprehension:
> n1 = [ list(j) for j in set(tuple(i) for i in n)) ]
> 
> Another way would be to use the string representation of the list as a 
> dictionary key and the original list as the value, then pull the 
> original lists back out:
> n1 = dict((repr(i), i) for i in n).values()

You could combine these two, use a tuple as the key but retain the list:
n1 = dict((tuple(i), i) for i in n).values()

I think I like this the best, it avoids the conversion from tuple back 
to list, and I suspect that converting a list to a tuple - which should 
involve just copying references to the list contents - is quicker than 
converting it to a string.

Kent