''' Created on Nov 29, 2016 @author: David ''' import codecs import re f = codecs.open("f:/parll data/data/svalex-ttm.csv", "r", "utf-8") mlist = [] for line in f: parts = line.split("\t") if (parts[1] not in mlist): mlist.append(parts[1]) print("{"+",".join(mlist)+"}")