Question

i’m trying to create a class does not allow duplicate entryies

class QSet(list):
    def __init__(self,*args):
        super(QSet, self).__init__(args[0])
        self=list(set(self))  

and when try to test the class duplicated entries not removed

d=["a","b","a","z","a"]
z=QList(d)       

print d  
print z

any suggestion to solve this
Thanks

Answer 1

Reassigning self doesn’t actually change the object (you’re just rebinding the identifier self to a new object). You could change the line to:

    self[:] = list(set(self))