cant't delete duplicate word in python array

Question

i am trying to delete duplicate words from python, everything works, but "Kate" word is still duplicated. help me

def custom_function(list):
sia = []
for item in list:
    sia.append(item.capitalize())

for word in sia:
    while sia.count(word) != 1:
        sia.remove(word)
        if sia.count(word) == 1:
            break


return sia



unknown_list = ["toby", "James", "kate", "George", "James", "rick", "Alex", 
"Jein", "Alex", "Alex","George", "Jein", "kate", "medelin"]

print(custom_function(unknown_list))

You shouldn't alter the list while you're iterating over it. — Matthias, Nov 04 '18 at 15:59
All this when you could just do `set([name.capitalize() for name in lst])`. — Silver, Nov 04 '18 at 15:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '18 at 16:25

You can do it as follows using list copy() method:

def custom_function(list):

    sia = []
    for item in list:
        sia.append(item.capitalize())

    sia_orig = sia.copy()
    for word in sia_orig:

        while True:
            if sia.count(word) != 1:
                sia.remove(word)
                if sia.count(word) == 1:
                    break
            else:
                break

    return sia

unknown_list = ["toby", "James", "kate", "George", "James", "rick", "Alex", 
"Jein", "Alex", "Alex","George", "Jein", "kate", "medelin"]

print(custom_function(unknown_list))

Output:

['Toby', 'James', 'Rick', 'Alex', 'George', 'Jein', 'Kate', 'Medelin']

cant't delete duplicate word in python array

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