Please post in text mode, not html. questions anon <questions.a...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > > lastdate=all_the_dates[1] > onedateperday.append(lastdate) > print onedateperday > for date in all_the_dates: > if date !=lastdate: > lastdate=date > onedateperday.append(lastdate)
There are a number of things you don't explicitly specify. But if you require the dates in the output list to be in the same order as the original list, you have a bug in using element [1]. You should be using element zero, or more simply: lastdate=None for date in all_the_dates: if date !=lastdate: onedateperday.append(date) lastdate=date But if you specified a bit more, even simpler answers are possible. For example, if output order doesn't matter, try: onedateperday = list (set (all_the_dates)) If output order matters, but the desired order is sorted, onedateperday = sorted ( list (set (all_the_dates))) Other approaches are possible using library functions, but this should be enough. -- DaveA _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor