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Python swag: Removing duplicate elements from a python list (the unconventional way)

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We know that the reason for python to be so popular is that it is very easy to use and a lot complex algorithms can be implemented very easily. Today I am writing this post to share a simple way to do something that is slightly tedious in nature. A ‘list’ is a beautiful data type that is widely used to store a set of data. It is a significant improvement from the concept of arrays. Arrays were static, homogeneous, and pathetic. Lists are dynamic, heterogeneous and so ‘not arrays’. In modern day programming, lists are so much more preferred because we deal with so much real-time data. With this, one of the challenges that we face is redundancy of data in the list. Or in simple words, duplicate elements or repeated elements. It’s not a very complicated problem but it is a thing to consider. There are many ways to remove duplicate elements form a list. But most of them involve iterating through the entire list to compare each element with each other. Today I am going to show...