Roel Schroeven wrote: > Alan Gauld schreef: > >> "Chris Hengge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> >>> I'm terming a redundant list just like I posted in the original >>> message: >>> [[1,2,3], [4,5,6],[1,2,3]] >>> >>> [0][0] and [0][2] are redundant, so I only want to keep one of them. >>> >> In that case put the inner lists in a Set. That will eliminate >> duplicates. >> > > That won't work: list objects are unhashable so you can't put them in a > set. You'll have to convert them to tuples first. > > Ooh.... The plot thickens... surely there's a faster way than casting them all as tuples, generating a set, and then casting them all back to lists? Or perhaps Chris can just keep them as tuples?
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