-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/14 00:58, Dave Angel wrote: > Bob Williams <li...@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.
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