Answer: How to get only distinct values from a list? [duplicate]

answer re: How to get only distinct values from a list?

Oct 6 '18

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This is what you needed with set():

>>> lst1 = ['A','A','A','B','C','C','D','D','D','B','B']
>>> list(set(lst1))
['A', 'B', 'D', 'C']

Another solution OrderedDict to keep the order of keys during insertion.

>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> list(OrderedDict.fromkeys(lst1))
['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']

In case you have liberty to use pandas then try

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