在没有任何python数据结构的帮助下，你可以简单地尝试下面的代码。这将工作于寻找重复的各种输入，如字符串，列表等。

# finding duplicates in unsorted an array 
def duplicates(numbers):
    store=[]
    checked=[]
    for i in range(len(numbers)):
        counter =1 
        for j in range(i+1,len(numbers)):
            if numbers[i] not in checked and numbers[j]==numbers[i] :
                counter +=1 
        if counter > 1 :
            store.append(numbers[i])
            checked.append(numbers[i])
    return store

print(duplicates([1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,5]))  # output:  [2, 3, 4]
print(duplicates("madam"))              # output:  ['m', 'a']

some_list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'd', 'm', 'n', 'n']
some_dictionary = {}

for element in some_list:
    if element not in some_dictionary:
       some_dictionary[element] = 1
    else:
        some_dictionary[element] += 1

for key, value in some_dictionary.items():
    if value > 1:
       print(key, end = ' ')

# another way
duplicates = []

for x in some_list:
    if some_list.count(x) > 1 and x not in duplicates:
        duplicates.append(x)

print()
print(duplicates)

来源:这里

下面是一个快速生成器，它使用dict将每个元素存储为一个带有布尔值的键，用于检查是否已经产生了重复项。

对于所有元素都是可哈希类型的列表:

def gen_dupes(array):
    unique = {}
    for value in array:
        if value in unique and unique[value]:
            unique[value] = False
            yield value
        else:
            unique[value] = True

array = [1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 6]
print(list(gen_dupes(array)))
# => [2, 1, 6]

对于可能包含列表的列表:

def gen_dupes(array):
    unique = {}
    for value in array:
        is_list = False
        if type(value) is list:
            value = tuple(value)
            is_list = True

        if value in unique and unique[value]:
            unique[value] = False
            if is_list:
                value = list(value)

            yield value
        else:
            unique[value] = True

array = [1, 2, 2, [1, 2], 3, 4, [1, 2], 5, 2, 6, 6]
print(list(gen_dupes(array)))
# => [2, [1, 2], 6]

你不需要计数，只需要该物品之前是否被看到过。把这个答案用在这个问题上:

def list_duplicates(seq):
  seen = set()
  seen_add = seen.add
  # adds all elements it doesn't know yet to seen and all other to seen_twice
  seen_twice = set( x for x in seq if x in seen or seen_add(x) )
  # turn the set into a list (as requested)
  return list( seen_twice )

a = [1,2,3,2,1,5,6,5,5,5]
list_duplicates(a) # yields [1, 2, 5]

以防速度很重要，这里有一些时间安排:

# file: test.py
import collections

def thg435(l):
    return [x for x, y in collections.Counter(l).items() if y > 1]

def moooeeeep(l):
    seen = set()
    seen_add = seen.add
    # adds all elements it doesn't know yet to seen and all other to seen_twice
    seen_twice = set( x for x in l if x in seen or seen_add(x) )
    # turn the set into a list (as requested)
    return list( seen_twice )

def RiteshKumar(l):
    return list(set([x for x in l if l.count(x) > 1]))

def JohnLaRooy(L):
    seen = set()
    seen2 = set()
    seen_add = seen.add
    seen2_add = seen2.add
    for item in L:
        if item in seen:
            seen2_add(item)
        else:
            seen_add(item)
    return list(seen2)

l = [1,2,3,2,1,5,6,5,5,5]*100

以下是结果:(做得好@JohnLaRooy!)

$ python -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.JohnLaRooy(test.l)'
10000 loops, best of 3: 74.6 usec per loop
$ python -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.moooeeeep(test.l)'
10000 loops, best of 3: 91.3 usec per loop
$ python -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.thg435(test.l)'
1000 loops, best of 3: 266 usec per loop
$ python -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.RiteshKumar(test.l)'
100 loops, best of 3: 8.35 msec per loop

有趣的是，除了计时本身，当使用pypy时，排名也略有变化。最有趣的是，基于counter的方法极大地受益于pypy的优化，而我建议的方法缓存方法似乎几乎没有任何效果。

$ pypy -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.JohnLaRooy(test.l)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 17.8 usec per loop
$ pypy -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.thg435(test.l)'
10000 loops, best of 3: 23 usec per loop
$ pypy -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.moooeeeep(test.l)'
10000 loops, best of 3: 39.3 usec per loop

显然，这种效应与输入数据的“重复性”有关。我设置了l = [random.randrange(1000000) for I in xrange(10000)]，得到了这些结果:

$ pypy -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.moooeeeep(test.l)'
1000 loops, best of 3: 495 usec per loop
$ pypy -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.JohnLaRooy(test.l)'
1000 loops, best of 3: 499 usec per loop
$ pypy -mtimeit -s 'import test' 'test.thg435(test.l)'
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.68 msec per loop

要删除重复项，请使用集合(a)。要打印副本，可以这样做:

a = [1,2,3,2,1,5,6,5,5,5]

import collections
print([item for item, count in collections.Counter(a).items() if count > 1])

## [1, 2, 5]

请注意Counter并不是特别有效(计时)，可能会在这里过度使用。Set会表现得更好。这段代码以源顺序计算一个唯一元素的列表:

seen = set()
uniq = []
for x in a:
    if x not in seen:
        uniq.append(x)
        seen.add(x)

或者，更简洁地说:

seen = set()
uniq = [x for x in a if x not in seen and not seen.add(x)]    

我不推荐后一种风格，因为它不清楚not seen.add(x)在做什么(set add()方法总是返回None，因此需要not)。

计算没有库的重复元素列表:

seen = set()
dupes = []

for x in a:
    if x in seen:
        dupes.append(x)
    else:
        seen.add(x)

或者，更简洁地说:

seen = set()
dupes = [x for x in a if x in seen or seen.add(x)]    

如果列表元素不可哈希，则不能使用set /dicts，必须使用二次时间解决方案(逐个比较)。例如:

a = [[1], [2], [3], [1], [5], [3]]

no_dupes = [x for n, x in enumerate(a) if x not in a[:n]]
print no_dupes # [[1], [2], [3], [5]]

dupes = [x for n, x in enumerate(a) if x in a[:n]]
print dupes # [[1], [3]]

我注意到大多数解决方案的复杂度为O(n * n)，对于大型列表来说非常缓慢。所以我想分享一下我写的函数，它支持整数或字符串，在最好的情况下是O(n)。对于一个包含10万个元素的列表，最上面的解决方案需要超过30秒，而我的解决方案只需0.12秒

def get_duplicates(list1):
    '''Return all duplicates given a list. O(n) complexity for best case scenario.
    input: [1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4]
    output: [1, 1, 4]
    '''
    dic = {}
    for el in list1:
        try:
            dic[el] += 1
        except:
            dic[el] = 1
    dupes = []
    for key in dic.keys():
        for i in range(dic[key] - 1):
            dupes.append(key)
    return dupes


list1 = [1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4]
> print(get_duplicates(list1))
[1, 1, 4]

或者获得唯一的副本:

> print(list(set(get_duplicates(list1))))
[1, 4]