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class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>1</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">vote</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>2</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/26189496/how-to-find-duplicates-values-in-list-python" data-searchsession="/questions/26189496/how-to-find-duplicates-values-in-list-python?s=1|1.5947" title="How to find duplicates values in list Python">\r\n        Q: How to find duplicates values in list Python \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I was wondering <span class="result-highlight">how</span> can I know if when a user inputs a value, that value already exists in a <span class="result-highlight">list</span>.\n\nFor example;\n\nlis = [&#39;foo&#39;, &#39;boo&#39;, &#39;hoo&#39;]\n\n\nuser inputs:\n\n&#39;boo&#39;\n\n\nNow my question is <span class="result-highlight">how</span> can I tell the user this value already exists inside the <span class="result-highlight">list</span>.\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-list t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2014-10-04 04:05:57Z" class="relativetime">Oct 4 \'14</span> by <a href="/users/3973873/andre">Andre</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-20881716" data-position="2">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>-6</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>2</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/20881716/python-algorithm-find-duplicates-in-list" data-searchsession="/questions/20881716/python-algorithm-find-duplicates-in-list?s=2|1.1658" title="python algorithm, find duplicates in list">\r\n        Q: python algorithm, find duplicates in list [closed]\r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I need to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> all unique values in <span class="result-highlight">python</span> <span class="result-highlight">list</span>, and if there was a <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> write <span class="result-highlight">how</span> many of them, example:\n\n[&#39;apple&#39;,&#39;cherry&#39;,&#39;coffee&#39;,&#39;apple&#39;,&#39;coffee&#39;,&#39;coffee&#39;]\n\n\nand the output should be:    \n\napple 2\ncherry 1\ncoffee 3\n\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-algorithm">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/algorithm" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;algorithm&#39;" rel="tag">algorithm</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2014-01-02 11:16:29Z" class="relativetime">Jan 2 \'14</span> by <a href="/users/3057314/user3057314">user3057314</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-41576429" data-position="3">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>0</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>2</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/41576429/python-how-to-find-and-merge-duplicates-in-list-of-addresses-which-are-lists" data-searchsession="/questions/41576429/python-how-to-find-and-merge-duplicates-in-list-of-addresses-which-are-lists?s=3|1.1459" title="Python - How to find and merge duplicates in list of addresses (which are lists themselves)">\r\n        Q: Python - How to find and merge duplicates in list of addresses (which are lists themselves) \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I have a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> of addresses that I scraped from a site and I would like to compare that to a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> of addresses from a previous scrape to merge and remove the <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span>.  The <span class="result-highlight">list</span> I scraped has zip &hellip;  codes and sometimes cities while the previous scraped <span class="result-highlight">list</span> only has cities, no zip.  My end goal is to merge all the <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span> and leave entries without <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span>.\n\nHere is an example of 2 entries &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-list t-merge t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/merge" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;merge&#39;" rel="tag">merge</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2017-01-10 19:03:10Z" class="relativetime">Jan 10</span> by <a href="/users/7400981/tykom">tykom</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-21925497" data-position="4">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>3</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>7</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/21925497/how-to-find-a-duplicate-in-a-list-without-using-set-in-python" data-searchsession="/questions/21925497/how-to-find-a-duplicate-in-a-list-without-using-set-in-python?s=4|1.0777" title="How to find a duplicate in a list without using set in python?">\r\n        Q: How to find a duplicate in a list without using set in python? \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I know that we can use the set in <span class="result-highlight">python</span> to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> if there is any <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> in a <span class="result-highlight">list</span>. I was just wondering, if we can <span class="result-highlight">find</span> a <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> in a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> without using set.\n\nSay, my <span class="result-highlight">list</span> is \n\na=[&#39;1545&#39;,&#39;1254&#39;,&#39;1545&#39;]\n\n\nthen <span class="result-highlight">how</span> to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> a <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span>?\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2014-02-21 04:47:18Z" class="relativetime">Feb 21 \'14</span> by user3260982            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-31047647" data-position="5">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>3</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>3</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/31047647/how-to-find-duplicates-in-a-python-list-that-are-adjacent-to-each-other-and-list" data-searchsession="/questions/31047647/how-to-find-duplicates-in-a-python-list-that-are-adjacent-to-each-other-and-list?s=5|1.0348" title="How to find duplicates in a python list that are adjacent to each other and list them with respect to their indices?">\r\n        Q: How to find duplicates in a python list that are adjacent to each other and list them with r&hellip; \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                 and <span class="result-highlight">list</span> <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span> in <span class="result-highlight">Python</span> <span class="result-highlight">list</span>\n\nIdentify <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> values in a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> in <span class="result-highlight">Python</span>\n\nThis is where I am right now:\n\nr = csv.reader(data, delimiter= &#39;\\t&#39;)\ncolumns = []\nfor row in r:\n        # adds column &hellip; I have a program that reads a .csv file, checks for any mismatch in column length (by comparing it to the header-fields), which then returns everything it found out as a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> (and then writes &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-list t-csv t-dictionary t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/csv" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;csv&#39;" rel="tag">csv</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/dictionary" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;dictionary&#39;" rel="tag">dictionary</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2015-06-25 10:23:14Z" class="relativetime">Jun 25 \'15</span> by <a href="/users/3460139/christian-w">Christian W.</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-22923084" data-position="6">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>1</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">vote</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>3</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/22923084/how-to-find-out-if-there-are-any-duplicates-in-list-of-lists" data-searchsession="/questions/22923084/how-to-find-out-if-there-are-any-duplicates-in-list-of-lists?s=6|0.9202" title="How to find out if there are any duplicates in list of lists">\r\n        Q: How to find out if there are any duplicates in list of lists \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                 lists in <span class="result-highlight">python</span> and return matches and <span class="result-highlight">How</span> to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> common elements in <span class="result-highlight">list</span> of lists?\n\nHowever, they&#39;re not quite what I&#39;m looking for. Say for example I have this <span class="result-highlight">list</span> of lists:\n\nlist_x = [[66,76 &hellip; So I&#39;m taking an intro computer science course right now, and I was wondering <span class="result-highlight">how</span> to check if there were any <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span> within multiple lists. I&#39;ve read up on these answers:\n\n<span class="result-highlight">How</span> can I compare two &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-list t-python-3&#251;x t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/python-3.x" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python-3.x&#39;" rel="tag">python-3.x</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2014-04-07 21:04:41Z" class="relativetime">Apr 7 \'14</span> by <a href="/users/3440123/user3440123">user3440123</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-33335058" data-position="7">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>0</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>2</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/33335058/how-to-find-a-duplicate-in-a-list-without-in-built-functions-in-python" data-searchsession="/questions/33335058/how-to-find-a-duplicate-in-a-list-without-in-built-functions-in-python?s=7|0.9078" title="How to find a duplicate in a list without in-built functions in Python?">\r\n        Q: How to find a duplicate in a list without in-built functions in Python? \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I&#39;m trying to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> if there is a <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> within a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> without using the in-built functions. So far I have something like this however it does not seem to be working. Can anyone help? Give pointers &hellip; ? Improvements? I&#39;d appreciate it. (<span class="result-highlight">Python</span> version 2.7.10)\n\ndef DupSearch(<span class="result-highlight">list</span>):\ncounter=0\nfor i in range(len(<span class="result-highlight">list</span>)):\n    if <span class="result-highlight">list</span>[i]==<span class="result-highlight">list</span>[0]:\n        for j in range(len(<span class="result-highlight">list</span>)):\n            if <span class="result-highlight">list</span>[j &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2015-10-25 21:03:38Z" class="relativetime">Oct 25 \'15</span> by <a href="/users/5463291/sectah">Sectah</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-17202444" data-position="8">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>-1</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered">\r\n                        <strong>3</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/17202444/python-how-to-find-duplicates-in-a-list-and-update-these-duplicate-items-by-re" data-searchsession="/questions/17202444/python-how-to-find-duplicates-in-a-list-and-update-these-duplicate-items-by-re?s=8|0.8365" title="Python : How to find duplicates in a list and update these duplicate items by renaming them with a progressive letter added">\r\n        Q: Python : How to find duplicates in a list and update these duplicate items by renaming them &hellip; \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I have a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> of items like this:\n\n[&#39;T1&#39;,&#39;T2&#39;,&#39;T2&#39;,&#39;T2&#39;,&#39;T2&#39;,&#39;T3&#39;,&#39;T3&#39; ]\n\nI need to make sure that <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span> are renamed with a progressive letter added like this:\n\n[&#39;T1&#39;,&#39;T2A&#39;,&#39;T2B&#39;,&#39;T2C&#39;,&#39;T2D &hellip; &#39;,&#39;T3A&#39;,&#39;T3B&#39;]\n\nbut only if there is more than 1 occurrence of the same item.\n\nAlso, is it possible to do so without generating a new <span class="result-highlight">list</span>?\n\nAny ideas?\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-list t-duplicates t-rename">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/rename" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;rename&#39;" rel="tag">rename</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2013-06-19 22:27:34Z" class="relativetime">Jun 19 \'13</span> by <a href="/users/2503109/ariel-salvo-caliban">Ariel Salvo Caliban</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-29733813" data-position="9">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>3</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>4</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/29733813/python-optimize-how-to-find-duplicate-value-and-value-index-in-a-list" data-searchsession="/questions/29733813/python-optimize-how-to-find-duplicate-value-and-value-index-in-a-list?s=9|0.7297" title="Python optimize how to find duplicate value and value index in a list">\r\n        Q: Python optimize how to find duplicate value and value index in a list \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I have a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> with 18 000 unique ID.\nID are the concatenation of letters A, B, C, D.\nI have made a code who group ID by ID[0:-1] and give index position of the <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> ID.\n\nThat&#39;s works well &hellip; &#39;]\n\nstartTime = time.time()\nb = [i[0:-1] for i in a]\nb = <span class="result-highlight">list</span>(set(b))\n\n\nresult = range(len(b))\nit = 0\nfor i in result:\n    result[i] = [b[i], []]\n    for j in xrange(len(a)):\n        if b[i] == a[j][0:-1 &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-performance t-list t-optimization t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/performance" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;performance&#39;" rel="tag">performance</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/optimization" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;optimization&#39;" rel="tag">optimization</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2015-04-19 18:11:28Z" class="relativetime">Apr 19 \'15</span> by <a href="/users/1743230/guilhain">Guilhain</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-41862084" data-position="10">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>-4</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered">\r\n                        <strong>1</strong>answer\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/41862084/replacing-one-specific-duplicate-in-list-of-duplicates-in-python" data-searchsession="/questions/41862084/replacing-one-specific-duplicate-in-list-of-duplicates-in-python?s=10|0.5823" title="Replacing ONE specific duplicate in list of duplicates in python">\r\n        Q: Replacing ONE specific duplicate in list of duplicates in python \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                () method and referring to the specific <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> with its index, but that changes all of the <span class="result-highlight">duplicates</span>. What should I do? 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Its a giant product listing. Each row has close to 20 fields. [Item#, UPC, Desc, etc]\n\n<span class="result-highlight">How</span> can I,\n\na) <span class="result-highlight">Find</span> and Print <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> rows. [This file is a large &hellip;  appended file, so I have multiple headers included in the file which I need to remove, so I wanted to know exact rows which are <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> first.]\n\nb) <span class="result-highlight">Find</span> and Print <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> rows based on a column &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-bash t-python t-perl">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/bash" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;bash&#39;" rel="tag">bash</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/perl" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;perl&#39;" rel="tag">perl</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2010-11-04 03:29:13Z" class="relativetime">Nov 4 \'10</span> by bcrawl            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-39229769" data-position="12">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>-1</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>2</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/39229769/how-to-find-length-of-the-sequence-in-a-list-using-python-with-duplicates" data-searchsession="/questions/39229769/how-to-find-length-of-the-sequence-in-a-list-using-python-with-duplicates?s=12|0.4968" title="How to find length of the sequence in a list using python [with Duplicates]?">\r\n        Q: How to find length of the sequence in a list using python [with Duplicates]? [duplicate]\r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                I am trying with below code. \n\nfrom itertools import groupby\n\nrange_mod = [&#39;P&#39;, &#39;P&#39;, &#39;P&#39;, &#39;P&#39;, &#39;N&#39;, &#39;N&#39;, &#39;N&#39;, &#39;N&#39;, &#39;P&#39;, &#39;P&#39;, &#39;P&#39;]\n\nprint(dict((i,len(<span class="result-highlight">list</span>(j))) for i, j in groupby(range_mod)))\n\n\nNote &hellip; : Output need not be in Dict\n\nActual Output:\n\n{&#39;P&#39;: 3, &#39;N&#39;: 4}\n\n\nExpected output: I am aware Dictionary doesn&#39;t allow <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> keys. So looking for other options\n\n{&#39;P&#39;: 4, &#39;N&#39;: 4, &#39;P&#39; : 3}\n\n\nThanks in advance.\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2016-08-30 14:07:38Z" class="relativetime">Aug 30 \'16</span> by <a href="/users/2799214/gokulkrishna-surapureddy">Gokulkrishna Surapureddy</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-1920145" data-position="13">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>19</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered">\r\n                        <strong>14</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/1920145/how-to-find-duplicate-elements-in-array-using-for-loop-in-python" data-searchsession="/questions/1920145/how-to-find-duplicate-elements-in-array-using-for-loop-in-python?s=13|0.4869" title="How to find duplicate elements in array using for loop in Python?">\r\n        Q: How to find duplicate elements in array using for loop in Python? \r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                 code to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> the <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> elements in the list_a. I don&#39;t want to remove the elements from <span class="result-highlight">list</span>.\n\nBut I want to use for loop here.\nNormally C/C++ we use like this I guess:\n\n for (int i=0;i &hellip; I have a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> with <span class="result-highlight">duplicate</span> elements:\n\n list_a=[1,2,3,5,6,7,5,2]\n\n tmp=[]\n\n for i in list_a:\n     if tmp.__contains__(i):\n         print i\n     else:\n         tmp.append(i)\n\n\nI have used the above &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-duplicates">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/duplicates" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;duplicates&#39;" rel="tag">duplicates</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2009-12-17 08:01:33Z" class="relativetime">Dec 17 \'09</span> by <a href="/users/190350/beginner">Beginner</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-11615041" data-position="14">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>5</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>4</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/11615041/how-to-find-match-items-from-two-lists" data-searchsession="/questions/11615041/how-to-find-match-items-from-two-lists?s=14|0.4110" title="How to find match items from two lists?">\r\n        Q: How to find match items from two lists? [duplicate]\r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                \n  Possible <span class="result-highlight">Duplicate</span>:\n  <span class="result-highlight">Python</span>: <span class="result-highlight">How</span> to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> <span class="result-highlight">list</span> intersection?  \n\n\n\n\nI have two lists of data in a .txt\n\ndata1 = &quot;name1&quot;, &quot;name2&quot;, &quot;name3&quot;, &quot;name4&quot; etc.\n\ndata2 = &quot;name3&quot;, &quot;name6&quot;, &quot;name10&quot; etc.\n\n\nI want to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> out which names appears in both <span class="result-highlight">list</span>\n<span class="result-highlight">How</span> would I do it?\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-python-2&#251;7">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/python-2.7" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python-2.7&#39;" rel="tag">python-2.7</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2012-07-23 14:54:25Z" class="relativetime">Jul 23 \'12</span> by <a href="/users/1541162/ivanhoifung">ivanhoifung</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n\r\n    <div class="question-summary search-result" id="question-summary-11923657" data-position="15">\r\n        <div class="statscontainer">\r\n            <div class="statsarrow"></div>\r\n            <div class="stats">\r\n                <div class="vote">\r\n                    <div class="votes ">\r\n                        <span class="vote-count-post "><strong>3</strong></span>\r\n                        <div class="viewcount">votes</div>\r\n                    </div>\r\n                </div>\r\n                    <div class="status answered-accepted">\r\n                        <strong>2</strong>answers\r\n                    </div>\r\n            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n        <div class="summary">\r\n            <div class="result-link">\r\n                <span>\r\n    <a href="/questions/11923657/python-find-integer-closest-to-0-in-list" data-searchsession="/questions/11923657/python-find-integer-closest-to-0-in-list?s=15|0.4109" title="Python - find integer closest to 0 in list">\r\n        Q: Python - find integer closest to 0 in list [duplicate]\r\n    </a>\r\n</span>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="excerpt">\r\n                \n  Possible <span class="result-highlight">Duplicate</span>:\n  finding index of an item closest to the value in a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> that&#39;s not entirely sorted  \n\n\n\n\nI&#39;ve got a <span class="result-highlight">list</span> of positive and negative numbers in <span class="result-highlight">Python</span> ([237, 72, -18, 237, 236 &hellip; , 237, 60, -158, -273, -78, 492, 243]). I want to <span class="result-highlight">find</span> the number which is closest to 0. <span class="result-highlight">How</span> do I do this?\n &hellip; \r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class="tags user-tags t-python t-algorithm t-list t-numbers">\r\n<a href="/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/algorithm" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;algorithm&#39;" rel="tag">algorithm</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/list" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;list&#39;" rel="tag">list</a> <a href="/questions/tagged/numbers" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;numbers&#39;" rel="tag">numbers</a>             </div>\r\n            <div class="started fr">\r\nasked <span title="2012-08-12 16:09:37Z" class="relativetime">Aug 12 \'12</span> by <a href="/users/985616/gadgetmo">gadgetmo</a>            </div>\r\n        </div>\r\n    </div>\r\n        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In [4]:
import bs4
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)


/home/zzz/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: No parser was explicitly specified, so I'm using the best available HTML parser for this system ("lxml"). This usually isn't a problem, but if you run this code on another system, or in a different virtual environment, it may use a different parser and behave differently.

The code that caused this warning is on line 174 of the file /home/zzz/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/runpy.py. To get rid of this warning, change code that looks like this:

 BeautifulSoup([your markup])

to this:

 BeautifulSoup([your markup], "lxml")

  markup_type=markup_type))

In [147]:
search_results = soup.findAll(attrs={'class':'question-summary search-result'},limit=10)

In [168]:
search_results[0]


Out[168]:
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In [7]:
with open('this_html.html', 'w') as outfile:
    outfile.write(html)

In [227]:
title=[res.find(attrs={'class':'result-link'}).span.text.strip() for res in search_results]
time=[res.find(attrs={'class':'relativetime'}).text.strip() for res in search_results]
ans=[res.find(attrs={'class':'status answered-accepted'}) for res in search_results]
c=[]
for b in ans:
    c.append(b.text.strip().replace('answer',' answer') if b!=None else u'0 answer') 
link=[res.find(attrs={'class':'result-link'}).a['data-searchsession'] for res in search_results]
link=["<http://stackoverflow.com"+i+">" for i in link]

In [228]:
zip(title,time,c,link)


Out[228]:
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  u"Oct 4 '14",
  u'2 answers',
  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26189496/how-to-find-duplicates-values-in-list-python?s=1|1.5947>'),
 (u'Q: python algorithm, find duplicates in list [closed]',
  u"Jan 2 '14",
  u'2 answers',
  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20881716/python-algorithm-find-duplicates-in-list?s=2|1.1658>'),
 (u'Q: Python - How to find and merge duplicates in list of addresses (which are lists themselves)',
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  u'2 answers',
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 (u'Q: How to find a duplicate in a list without using set in python?',
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  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21925497/how-to-find-a-duplicate-in-a-list-without-using-set-in-python?s=4|1.0777>'),
 (u'Q: How to find duplicates in a python list that are adjacent to each other and list them with r\u2026',
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 (u'Q: How to find out if there are any duplicates in list of lists',
  u"Apr 7 '14",
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  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22923084/how-to-find-out-if-there-are-any-duplicates-in-list-of-lists?s=6|0.9202>'),
 (u'Q: How to find a duplicate in a list without in-built functions in Python?',
  u"Oct 25 '15",
  u'2 answers',
  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33335058/how-to-find-a-duplicate-in-a-list-without-in-built-functions-in-python?s=7|0.9078>'),
 (u'Q: Python : How to find duplicates in a list and update these duplicate items by renaming them \u2026',
  u"Jun 19 '13",
  u'0 answer',
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 (u'Q: Python optimize how to find duplicate value and value index in a list',
  u"Apr 19 '15",
  u'4 answers',
  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29733813/python-optimize-how-to-find-duplicate-value-and-value-index-in-a-list?s=9|0.7297>'),
 (u'Q: Replacing ONE specific duplicate in list of duplicates in python',
  u'Jan 25',
  u'0 answer',
  '<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41862084/replacing-one-specific-duplicate-in-list-of-duplicates-in-python?s=10|0.5823>')]

In [226]:
ans=[res.find(attrs={'class':'status answered-accepted'}) for res in search_results]
c=[]
for b in ans:
    c.append(b.text.strip().replace('answer',' answer') if b!=None else u'0 answer') 
c


Out[226]:
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 u'2 answers',
 u'7 answers',
 u'3 answers',
 u'3 answers',
 u'2 answers',
 u'0 answer',
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In [222]:
str(search_results[0])[1915:2032]


Out[222]:
''

In [223]:
sr = search_results[0]

In [16]:
sr


Out[16]:
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In [146]:
a=None
a if 1 else 0

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