remove duplicates from list of list python code example

Example 1: python remove duplicates from list

''' we can convert the list to set and then back to list'''
a=[1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6,7]
'''b=(list(set(a))) # will have only unique elemenets'''

Example 2: remove duplicates from a list of lists python

k = [[1, 2], [4], [5, 6, 2], [1, 2], [3], [4]]
new_k = []
for elem in k:
    if elem not in new_k:
        new_k.append(elem)
k = new_k
print k
# prints [[1, 2], [4], [5, 6, 2], [3]]