[Tutor] how to remove the coming duplication

[Christian Witts]

On 2011/11/10 09:10 AM, lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to remove the coming duplication,
>
> Here I wrote one (not working):
>
>
>>>> a=['2', '5', '7', '5', '5']
>>>> for i in range(len(a)-1):
> 	if a[i+1]==a[i]:
> 		a.remove(a[i+1])
> 	if i not in range(len(a)):
> 		break
>
> 	
>>>> a
> ['2', '7', '5', '5']
>
> I wish to get a is [2,5,7,5]
>
> just remove the coming duplication, not unique the list.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> Best regards,
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def remove_coming_duplication(a_list):
     return [element for idx, element in enumerate(a_list) if element != 
a_list[idx-1]]

 >>> remove_coming_duplication([2, 5, 7, 5, 5])
[2, 5, 7, 5]
 >>> remove_coming_duplication([2, 5, 7, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 7, 7, 5])
[2, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5]
 >>> remove_coming_duplication(['2', '5', '7', '5', '5'])
['2', '5', '7', '5']

With this you're simply iterating through the list and checking if the 
current element in the list is not equal to the previous element, and if 
so it is not a duplicate and will be added to the new list you're creating.

-- 

Christian Witts
Python Developer

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