No problem at all, as I said, this doesn't matter for my needs since I'm just posting values into a DB. Just curious why it jumbles it all up :)
On 11/30/06, Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is a fly in the ointment that hit me after I sent the email. Using set does not preserve the order. If you care about the order of elements in list1, my suggestion will not work. On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:01 -0500, Python 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. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409
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