Question

I have list like this:

 [' name           = Badmash Gujjar\n',
 ' image          = \n',
 ' image          =\n',
 ' caption        =\n', 
 ' director       = Sameer Butt\n',
 ' producer       =\n',
 ' writer         = Nasir Adeeb\n',
 ' starring       = Saima<br>Shaan (actor)Shaan<br>',
 ' music          = Robin Ghosh\n',
 ' cinematography =\n',
 ' editing        =\n', 
 ' distributor    = \n',
 ' released       = Film date2001']

I want to remove repeated elements from list. I tried following code, but not found any luck. list(set(l)).

Also is there any way to remove HTML tag? thanks

Answer 1

d = dict(map(str.strip, a.split('=', 1)) for a in l)

will create the following dictionary (which is probably what you want, since a dictionary doesn’t have repeated keys):

{'caption': '',
 'cinematography': '',
 'director': 'Sameer Butt',
 'distributor': '',
 'editing': '',
 'image': '',
 'music': 'Robin Ghosh',
 'name': 'Badmash Gujjar',
 'producer': '',
 'released': 'Film date2001',
 'starring': 'Saima<br>Shaan (actor)Shaan<br>',
 'writer': 'Nasir Adeeb'}

If you want to remove the <br> tags only, then you can use this:

d = dict(map(lambda x: x.strip().replace('<br>', ''), a.split('=', 1)) for a in l)

If you need to remove any HTML tags, a more complicated regular expression (or HTML parser) is needed.