How do i get rid of the duplicates in the list and append words to the empty list

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1

im only getting one line from the file on the list.
fname = input("Enter file name: ")
fh = open(fname)
lst = list()
newlist=list()
for line in fh:
word=line.split()
for words in word:
if words not in lst:
word.append(lst)
lst.sort()
print(lst)

2

Hi. Welcome.

I’m thinking you might want to change word.append(lst) to lst.append(words). Not sure yet. The indentation will have an effect on the result. Can you edit your post with fences (putting code between lines with ```) and add indentation? Example


```
fh = open(fname)
lst = []
...
if words not in lst:
    word.append(lst)
...
```
3

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
fh = open(fname)
lst = list()
…
for line in fh:
…word=line.split()
…
for words in word:
… if words not in last:
… lst.append(words)
… lst.sort()
print(lst)

4

The way you have it there, the first loop runs through all lines in the file and updates word. When that loop is done, only the last line is captured in word. To “see” the updates to word, you want to indent the second loop inside the block of the first loop.

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
fh = open(fname)
lst = []

for line in fh:

    words = line.split()

    for word in words:

        if word not in lst:
            lst.append(word)

lst.sort()
print(lst)
fh.close()