如果你想删除重复项(就地编辑而不是返回新列表)而不使用内置set, dict，请检查此选项。键，唯一，计数器

>>> t = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> for i in t:
...     if i in t[t.index(i)+1:]:
...         t.remove(i)
... 
>>> t
[3, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8]

如果你不关心顺序，想要一些不同于上面建议的python方式(也就是说，它可以在面试中使用)，那么:

def remove_dup(arr):
    size = len(arr)
    j = 0    # To store index of next unique element
    for i in range(0, size-1):
        # If current element is not equal
        # to next element then store that
        # current element
        if(arr[i] != arr[i+1]):
            arr[j] = arr[i]
            j+=1

    arr[j] = arr[size-1] # Store the last element as whether it is unique or repeated, it hasn't stored previously

    return arr[0:j+1]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    arr = [10, 10, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9]
    print(remove_dup(sorted(arr)))

时间复杂度:O(n)

辅助空间:O(n)

参考:http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/remove-duplicates-sorted-array/

尝试使用集合:

import sets
t = sets.Set(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'])
t1 = sets.Set(['a', 'b', 'c'])

print t | t1
print t - t1

为了完整起见，由于这是一个非常流行的问题，toolz库提供了一个独特的函数:

>>> tuple(unique((1, 2, 3)))
(1, 2, 3)
>>> tuple(unique((1, 2, 1, 3)))
(1, 2, 3)

到目前为止，我看到的所有保持顺序的方法要么使用朴素比较(时间复杂度最多为O(n^2))，要么使用限制于可哈希输入的重载OrderedDicts/set+list组合。下面是一个与哈希无关的O(nlogn)解决方案:

更新增加了关键参数、文档和Python 3兼容性。

# from functools import reduce <-- add this import on Python 3

def uniq(iterable, key=lambda x: x):
    """
    Remove duplicates from an iterable. Preserves order. 
    :type iterable: Iterable[Ord => A]
    :param iterable: an iterable of objects of any orderable type
    :type key: Callable[A] -> (Ord => B)
    :param key: optional argument; by default an item (A) is discarded 
    if another item (B), such that A == B, has already been encountered and taken. 
    If you provide a key, this condition changes to key(A) == key(B); the callable 
    must return orderable objects.
    """
    # Enumerate the list to restore order lately; reduce the sorted list; restore order
    def append_unique(acc, item):
        return acc if key(acc[-1][1]) == key(item[1]) else acc.append(item) or acc 
    srt_enum = sorted(enumerate(iterable), key=lambda item: key(item[1]))
    return [item[1] for item in sorted(reduce(append_unique, srt_enum, [srt_enum[0]]))] 

Python 3中非常简单的方法:

>>> n = [1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 1]
>>> n
[1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 1]
>>> m = sorted(list(set(n)))
>>> m
[1, 2, 3, 4]