parsing list in python

Question

I have list in python which has following entries

name-1

name-2

name-3

name-4

name-1

name-2

name-3

name-4

name-1

name-2

name-3

name-4

I would like remove name-1 from list except its first appearance -- resultant list should look like

name-1

name-2

name-3

name-4

name-2

name-3

name-4

name-2

name-3

name-4

How to achieve this ?

Answer 1

def remove_but_first( lst, it):
    first = lst.index( it )
    # everything up to the first occurance of it, then the rest of the list without all it
    return lst[:first+1] + [ x for x in lst[first:] if x != it ]

s = [1,2,3,4,1,5,6]
print remove_but_first( s, 1)

Answer 2

Assuming name-1 denotes "the first element":

[names[0]] + [n for n in names[1:] if n != names[0]]

EDIT: If the overall goal is to de-duplicate the entire list, just use set(names).