List of objects with a unique attribute

Question

I have a list of objects that each have a specific attribute. That attribute is not unique, and I would like to end up with a list of the objects that is a subset of the en

Answer 1

You could create a dict whose key is the object's thing and values are the objects themselves.

d = {}
for obj in object_list:
    d[obj.thing] = obj
desired_list = d.values()