TypeError: unhashable type: 'list' when using built-in set function

Question

I have a list containing multiple lists as its elements

eg: [[1,2,3,4],[4,5,6,7]]

If I use the built in set function to remove duplicates f

Answer 1

    python 3.2


    >>>> from itertools import chain
    >>>> eg=sorted(list(set(list(chain(*eg)))), reverse=True)
        [7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]


   ##### eg contain 2 list within a list. so if you want to use set() function
   you should flatten the list like [1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7]

   >>> res= list(chain(*eg))       # [1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7]                   
   >>> res1= set(res)                    #   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
   >>> res1= sorted(res1,reverse=True)