So, just to remove ambiguity, WHICH one of the bunch should be retained? Short answer: "the first seen" is what the proverbial "man in the street" would expect
For my purposes, it doesn't matter which instance is retained and which are removed, so yes, retaining the first one is quite acceptable. (That was also the simplest thing to do, so that's why all my solutions did that.)
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
