Answers for "how to remove duplicate entries from list in python"

python remove duplicates from list

mylist = ["a", "b", "b", "c", "a"]
mylist = sorted(set(mylist))
print(mylist)

python remove duplicates from list of dict

# set the dict to a tuple for hashability, then use {} for set literal and retrn each item to dict. 
[dict(t) for t in {tuple(d.items()) for d in l}]
# using two maps()
list(map(lambda t: dict(t), set(list(map(lambda d: tuple(d.items()), l)))))