On Mar 18, 9:56 pm, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Mar, 22:25, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > def nonunique(lst): > > slst = sorted(lst) > > return list(set([s[0] for s in > > filter(lambda t : t[0] != t[1], zip(slst[:-1],slst[1:]))])) > > Obviously that should be 'lambda t : t[0] == t[1]'. Instead of using > the set function, there is more structure to exploit when the list is > sorted: > > def nonunique(lst): > slst = sorted(lst) > dups = [s[0] for s in > filter(lambda t : t[0] == t[1], zip(slst[:-1],slst[1:]))] > return [dups[0]] + [s[1] for s in > filter(lambda t : t[0] != t[1], zip(dups[:-1],dups[1:]))]
Argh! What's wrong with something like: def duplicates(l): i = j = object() for k in sorted(l): if i != j == k: yield k i, j = j, k >>> list(duplicates([1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 1])) [1, 2] -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list