Program to remove duplicate characters from a given string in Python

Suppose we have a string s. We have to remove all duplicate characters that have already appeared before. The final string will have same ordering of characters like the actual one.

We can solve this by using ordered dictionary to maintain the insertion order of the characters. The value will be the frequency of those characters, however the frequency values are not important here. After forming the dictionary, we can simply take the keys and join them to get the string.

So, if the input is like s = "bbabcaaccdbaabababc", then the output will be "bacd".

• d := a dictionary where keys are stored in order by their insertion order
• for each character c in s, do
  • if c is not present in d, then
    • d[c] := 0
  • d[c] := d[c] + 1
• join the keys one after another in proper order to make the output string and return.

Example

Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding −

from collections import OrderedDict
def solve(s):
   d = OrderedDict()
   for c in s:
      if c not in d:
         d[c] = 0
      d[c] += 1

   return ''.join(d.keys())

s = "bbabcaaccdbaabababc"
print(solve(s))

Input

"bbabcaaccdbaabababc"

Output

"bacd"

Arnab Chakraborty

Updated on 12-Oct-2021 09:08:33

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