[Tutor] how to unique the string

[lina]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> lina wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I googled for a while, but failed to find the perfect answer,
>>
>> for a string
>>
>> ['85CUR', '85CUR']
>
>
> That's not a string, it is a list.
>
>
>> how can I unique it as:
>>
>> ['85CUR']
>
> Your question is unclear. If you have this:
>
> ['85CUR', '99bcd', '85CUR', '85CUR']
>
> what do you expect to get?
>
>
> # keep only the very first item
> ['85CUR']
> # keep the first copy of each string, in order
> ['85CUR', '99bcd']
> # keep the last copy of each string, in order
> ['99bcd', '85CUR']
> # ignore duplicates only when next to each other
> ['85CUR', '99bcd', '85CUR']
>
>
> Does the order of the result matter?
>
> If order matters, and you want to keep the first copy of each string:
>
> unique = []
> for item in items:
>    if item not in unique:
>        unique.append(item)
>
>
> If order doesn't matter, then use this:
>
> unique = list(set(items))

Thanks, this one unique=list(set(item)) works well.

I have a further question:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import os.path

mapping={}


DICTIONARYFILE="dictionary.pdb"
TOBETRANSLATEDFILEEXT=".out"
OUTPUTFILEEXT=".txt"

def generate_dict(dictionarysourcefile):
    for line in open(dictionarysourcefile,"r").readlines():
        parts=line.strip().split()
        mapping[parts[2]]=parts[0]


def translate_process(dictionary,tobetranslatedfile):
    results=[]
    unique={}
    for line in open(tobetranslatedfile,"r").readlines():
        tobetranslatedparts=line.strip().split()
        results.append(dictionary[tobetranslatedparts[2]])
    for residue in results:
        if residue not in unique:
            unique[residue]=1
        else:
            unique[residue]+=1
    for residue, numbers in unique.items():
        print(residue,numbers)
        with open(base+OUTPUTFILEEXT,"w") as f:
            f.write(str(unique))      ########### How can I output the
results the same as the print one. Thanks.


if __name__=="__main__":
    generate_dict(DICTIONARYFILE)
    for infilename in os.listdir("."):
        base, ext =  os.path.splitext(infilename)
        if ext == TOBETRANSLATEDFILEEXT:
            translate_process(mapping, infilename)

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B93SVRfpVVg3ZTBiYjU1MzYtNTNkMS00ZjQ1LWI4MzEtNDEyZWUwYTFmNjU4&hl=en_GB
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B93SVRfpVVg3ODU4MDlkMDQtOTJmMy00MDJiLTkwM2EtY2EyNTUyZmNhNTNm&hl=en_GB

Welcome anyone help me transform the code to another form.

>
>
>
> --
> Steven
>
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