[Tutor] Recommendation For A Complete Noob

[Bob Williams]

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On 12/02/14 00:58, Dave Angel wrote:
> Bob Williams <linux at barrowhillfarm.org.uk> Wrote in message:
> 
> 
>> to slice those lines to get the artist and album names into a
>> list.
>> 
>> So far, so good but my output contains duplicates, so my final
>> task is to work out how to get rid of them.
>> 
> 
> 
> Hint: a set will contain only one of each item. So if you have a 
> list of immutable items, the following will eliminate duplicates:
> 
> newlist = list (set (oldlist))
> 
> Sometimes a dict is better,  if only part of each item is to be 
> made unique.
> 
> This assumes that order doesn't matter.  If it does, perhaps an 
> ordered dict.
> 
Many thanks, Dave. That worked perfectly. Ordering doesn't matter in
this case, but I might try it as an exercise.

Bob
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