unique

odl.core.util.utility.unique(seq)

Return the unique values in a sequence.

Parameters

seqsequence

Sequence with (possibly duplicate) elements.

Returns

uniquelist

Unique elements of seq. Order is guaranteed to be the same as in seq.

Examples

Determine unique elements in list

>>> unique([1, 2, 3, 3])
[1, 2, 3]

>>> unique((1, 'str', 'str'))
[1, 'str']

The utility also works with unhashable types:

>>> unique((1, [1], [1]))
[1, [1]]