Removing duplicates from a list of lists

Question

I have a list of lists in Python:

k = [[1, 2], [4], [5, 6, 2], [1, 2], [3], [4]]

And I want to remove duplicate elements from it. Was if it

Answer 1

Strangely, the answers above removes the 'duplicates' but what if I want to remove the duplicated value also?? The following should be useful and does not create a new object in memory!

def dictRemoveDuplicates(self):
    a=[[1,'somevalue1'],[1,'somevalue2'],[2,'somevalue1'],[3,'somevalue4'],[5,'somevalue5'],[5,'somevalue1'],[5,'somevalue1'],[5,'somevalue8'],[6,'somevalue9'],[6,'somevalue0'],[6,'somevalue1'],[7,'somevalue7']]


print(a)
temp = 0
position = -1
for pageNo, item in a:
    position+=1
    if pageNo != temp:
        temp = pageNo
        continue
    else:
        a[position] = 0
        a[position - 1] = 0
a = [x for x in a if x != 0]         
print(a)

and the o/p is:

[[1, 'somevalue1'], [1, 'somevalue2'], [2, 'somevalue1'], [3, 'somevalue4'], [5, 'somevalue5'], [5, 'somevalue1'], [5, 'somevalue1'], [5, 'somevalue8'], [6, 'somevalue9'], [6, 'somevalue0'], [6, 'somevalue1'], [7, 'somevalue7']]
[[2, 'somevalue1'], [3, 'somevalue4'], [7, 'somevalue7']]