Sometimes, we want to remove duplicate characters from a string with Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to remove duplicate characters from a string with Python.
How to remove duplicate characters from a string with Python?
To remove duplicate characters from a string with Python, we can use the set
and string join
methods.
For instance, we write
bar = "".join(set(foo))
to call set
foo
to create set from string foo
without the duplicate characters in foo
.
Then we call ''.join
with the returned set to join the characters in the set back into a string.
Conclusion
To remove duplicate characters from a string with Python, we can use the set
and string join
methods.