On Wed, Dec 06, 2006, Morpheus wrote:
>I'm new to programming, and trying to learn the Python language.
>The following code does what I want it to do, but I have not idea how it
>works.
>
>def scanList(names,temp):
> for i in names:
> temp[i] = 0
> print temp
>
>Names = []
>temp = {}
>
>I have a list of names (Names[]) and want to remove duplicate names in
>the list. Here is what I think is happening (please correct me if I'm
>wrong, or using the wrong technical terminology): I'm passing the
>variables Names and temp as arguments to the scanList function. The
>statement (for i in names:) is an iteration going through each item in
>the list. The next statement (temp[i] = 0) is where I get confused.
>Can someone please explain what is happening here.
The way I usually do this is something like:
outDict = dict(map(lambda x: (x, 1), inList))
names = outDict.keys()
names.sort()
Bill
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