I have this List:

result = [['A', 100], ['A', 200], ['A', 300], ['A', 100, 'WERKS'], [A, 200, 'MATNR'], [A, 300, 'RESNR']]

I've been trying to remove lists that are duplicates of others. So, [A, 100] is a small duplicate of [A, 100, WERKS]. Therefore [A,100] would be removed. If the list can be found within another list it will be removed. Is there a way to do this in python?

new list should be:

result2 = [['A',100, 'WERKS'], ['A', 200, 'MATNR'], [A, 300, 'RESNR']]

CodePudding user response：

You could achieve this using set comparisons and a list comprehension. If any sublist converted to set is a strict subset of another, then don't keep it.

sets = list(map(set, result))
out = [l for l in result if not any(set(l)<s for s in sets)]

Be aware that the worst complexity is O(n**2)!

output:

[['A', 100, 'WERKS'], ['A', 200, 'MATNR'], ['A', 300, 'RESNR']]