Nice! Thank you. Curious as to why this happens though...
list1 = ['1','1','2','3','4'] list2 = list(set(list1)) list2
['1', '3', '2', '4'] <-- here the order has changed. This doesn't matter for my program, its just for a script that takes excel columns and posts them into a given SQL db column... On 11/30/06, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:51 -0800, Chris Hengge wrote: > Anyone point me to something more efficient then > list2 = list(set(list1)) Older Pythons will force you to import sets and use sets.Set > for item in list1: > if item not in list2: > list2.append() > > This just seems to take a bit a time when there are thousands or > dozens of thousands of records just to filter out the dozen or so > copies.. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp
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