1. 这些解决方案很好…… 为了在保留秩序的同时删除重复项，本页其他地方提出了优秀的解决方案:

seen = set()
[x for x in seq if not (x in seen or seen.add(x))]

以及变化，例如:

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

确实很受欢迎，因为它们简单、极简，并部署了正确的哈希以获得最佳效率。关于这些方法的主要抱怨似乎是，将方法see .add(x)“返回”的不变量None用作逻辑表达式中的常量(因此是多余的/不必要的)值(只是为了它的副作用)是笨拙和/或令人困惑的。

2. …but they waste one hash lookup per iteration. Surprisingly, given the amount of discussion and debate on this topic, there is actually a significant improvement to the code that seems to have been overlooked. As shown, each "test-and-set" iteration requires two hash lookups: the first to test membership x not in seen and then again to actually add the value seen.add(x). Since the first operation guarantees that the second will always be successful, there is a wasteful duplication of effort here. And because the overall technique here is so efficient, the excess hash lookups will likely end up being the most expensive proportion of what little work remains.

3.相反，让布景完成它的工作吧! 注意，上面的例子只调用set。加上预见，这样做总是会导致集合成员的增加。集合本身永远没有机会拒绝副本;我们的代码片段实际上已经篡夺了这个角色。使用显式的两步测试和设置代码剥夺了set自身排除这些重复的核心能力。

4. 单哈希查找代码: 下面的版本将每次迭代的哈希查找次数减少了一半，从两次减少到只有一次。

seen = set()
[x for x in seq if len(seen) < len(seen.add(x) or seen)]

from itertools import groupby
[ key for key,_ in groupby(sortedList)]

这个列表甚至不需要排序，充分条件是相等的值被分组在一起。

编辑:我假设“保持顺序”意味着列表实际上是有序的。如果不是这样，那么MizardX的解决方案是正确的。

社区编辑:然而，这是“将重复的连续元素压缩为单个元素”的最优雅的方法。

消除序列中的重复值，但保留其余项的顺序。使用通用发电机功能。

# for hashable sequence
def remove_duplicates(items):
    seen = set()
    for item in items:
        if item not in seen:
            yield item
            seen.add(item)

a = [1, 5, 2, 1, 9, 1, 5, 10]
list(remove_duplicates(a))
# [1, 5, 2, 9, 10]



# for unhashable sequence
def remove_duplicates(items, key=None):
    seen = set()
    for item in items:
        val = item if key is None else key(item)
        if val not in seen:
            yield item
            seen.add(val)

a = [ {'x': 1, 'y': 2}, {'x': 1, 'y': 3}, {'x': 1, 'y': 2}, {'x': 2, 'y': 4}]
list(remove_duplicates(a, key=lambda d: (d['x'],d['y'])))
# [{'x': 1, 'y': 2}, {'x': 1, 'y': 3}, {'x': 2, 'y': 4}]

只是从外部module1中添加这样一个功能的另一个(非常高性能的)实现:

>>> from iteration_utilities import unique_everseen
>>> lst = [1,1,1,2,3,2,2,2,1,3,4]

>>> list(unique_everseen(lst))
[1, 2, 3, 4]

计时

我做了一些计时(Python 3.6)，这些表明它比我测试的所有其他替代方案都快，包括OrderedDict.fromkeys, f7和more_itertools.unique_everseen:

%matplotlib notebook

from iteration_utilities import unique_everseen
from collections import OrderedDict
from more_itertools import unique_everseen as mi_unique_everseen

def f7(seq):
    seen = set()
    seen_add = seen.add
    return [x for x in seq if not (x in seen or seen_add(x))]

def iteration_utilities_unique_everseen(seq):
    return list(unique_everseen(seq))

def more_itertools_unique_everseen(seq):
    return list(mi_unique_everseen(seq))

def odict(seq):
    return list(OrderedDict.fromkeys(seq))

from simple_benchmark import benchmark

b = benchmark([f7, iteration_utilities_unique_everseen, more_itertools_unique_everseen, odict],
              {2**i: list(range(2**i)) for i in range(1, 20)},
              'list size (no duplicates)')
b.plot()

为了确保这一点，我还做了一个重复的测试，看看是否有区别:

import random

b = benchmark([f7, iteration_utilities_unique_everseen, more_itertools_unique_everseen, odict],
              {2**i: [random.randint(0, 2**(i-1)) for _ in range(2**i)] for i in range(1, 20)},
              'list size (lots of duplicates)')
b.plot()

一个只包含一个值:

b = benchmark([f7, iteration_utilities_unique_everseen, more_itertools_unique_everseen, odict],
              {2**i: [1]*(2**i) for i in range(1, 20)},
              'list size (only duplicates)')
b.plot()

在所有这些情况下，iteration_utilities。Unique_everseen函数是最快的(在我的电脑上)。

这iteration_utilities。unique_everseen函数也可以处理输入中的不可哈希值(但是当值是可哈希值时，性能是O(n*n)而不是O(n))。

>>> lst = [{1}, {1}, {2}, {1}, {3}]

>>> list(unique_everseen(lst))
[{1}, {2}, {3}]

1免责声明:我是该软件包的作者。

5倍更快减少变种，但更复杂

>>> l = [5, 6, 6, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4]
>>> reduce(lambda r, v: v in r[1] and r or (r[0].append(v) or r[1].add(v)) or r, l, ([], set()))[0]
[5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4]

解释:

default = (list(), set())
# use list to keep order
# use set to make lookup faster

def reducer(result, item):
    if item not in result[1]:
        result[0].append(item)
        result[1].add(item)
    return result

>>> reduce(reducer, l, default)[0]
[5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4]

一行列表的理解:

values_non_duplicated = [value for index, value in enumerate(values) if value not in values[ : index]]