uniques_only

Python Morsels Exercise

Get unique items from an iterable while maintaining item order

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I want you to write a function that accepts an iterable and returns a new iterable with all items from the original iterable except for duplicates.

Here's an example:

>>> uniques_only([1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1])
[1, 2, 3]
>>> nums = [1, -3, 2, 3, -1]
>>> squares = (n**2 for n in nums)
>>> uniques_only(squares)
[1, 9, 4]

Note that the order of the returned elements should remain the same.

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