Question

Im currently uniquifying a list of objects based on their name attribute by creating a dict of objects with the name value as the dict key like this:

obj_dict = dict()

for obj in obj_list:
    if not obj.name in obj_dict:
        obj_dict[obj.name] = obj

new_obj_list = obj_dict.items()

And I was wondering if there was a quicker or more pythonic way to do this.

Answer 1

If two objects with the same name should always considered identical you could implement __eq__ and __hash__ accordingly. Then your solution would be as easy as storing all your objects in a set():

new_obj_list = list(set(obj_list))

Converting the list back to a set is probably not even necessary since the order is lost anyway so unless you need to do something with it that only works with a list but not with a set just keep using the set.