concatenate multi values in one record without duplication

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Published on 2010-03-17T16:31:17Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 18:21 UTC
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I have a dbf table like below which is the result of one to many join from two tables. I want to have unique zone values from one Taxlot id field.

table name: input table
tid ----- zone
1 ------ A
1 ------ A
1 ------ B
1 ------ C
2 ------ D
2 ------ E
3 ------ C

Desirable output table table name: input table
tid ----- zone
1 ------ A, B, C
2 ------ D, E
3 ------ C

I got some help but couldn't make it to work.

inputTbl = r"C:\temp\input.dbf"
taxIdZoningDict = {}
searchRows = gp.searchcursor(inputTbl)
searchRow = searchRows.next()
while searchRow:
   if searchRow.TID in taxIdZoningDict:
      taxIdZoningDict[searchRow.TID].add(searchRow.ZONE)
   else:
      taxIdZoningDict[searchRow.TID] = set() #a set prevents dulpicates!
      taxIdZoningDict[searchRow.TID].add(searchRow.ZONE)
   searchRow = searchRows.next()

outputTbl = r"C:\temp\output.dbf"
gp.CreateTable_management(r"C:\temp", "output.dbf")
gp.AddField_management(outputTbl, "TID", "LONG")
gp.AddField_management(outputTbl, "ZONES", "TEXT", "", "", "20")
tidList = taxIdZoningDict.keys()
tidList.sort() #sorts in ascending order
insertRows = gp.insertcursor(outputTbl)
for tid in tidList:
   concatString = ""
   for zone in taxIdZoningDict[tid]
      concatString = concatString + zone + ","
   insertRow = insertRows.newrow()
   insertRow.TID = tid
   insertRow.ZONES = concatString[:-1]
   insertRows.insertrow(insertRow)
del insertRow
del insertRows

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