Python – Remove Duplicates From Tuple

In this tutorial, we will look at how to remove duplicates from a tuple in Python with the help of some examples.

How to remove duplicate elements from a tuple?

Tuples are immutable in Python. That is, they cannot be modified after creation. You can, however, use a set to create a new tuple with the duplicates removed from the original tuple.

Let’s look at some examples.

Remove duplicates from a tuple using a set

You can use a set to remove duplicates from a tuple in Python. First, create a set of unique elements from the tuple using the set() function and then use the tuple() function to create a new tuple from the resulting set.

# create a tuple
t = (1, 2, 3, 3, 4)
# remove duplicates
t = tuple(set(t))
print(t)

Output:

(1, 2, 3, 4)

You can see that the tuple now has only unique elements.

Note that we are not modifying the original tuple (tuples cannot be modified). Instead, we are creating a new tuple with only the unique elements and then assigning it to the variable storing the original tuple.

Using Iteration

Alternatively, you can also use iteration to remove duplicates from a tuple. Again, here we are creating a new tuple with distinct elements as tuples cannot be modified. The following are the steps.

1. Create an empty result list (result_ls) to store only the unique elements.
2. Iterate through each element in the original tuple.
3. For each element, check if its present in our result list, if it’s not present, add it to our result list.
4. Use the tuple() function to convert the result list to a tuple.

Let’s look at an example.

# create a tuple
t = (1, 2, 3, 3, 4)
# remove duplicates
result_ls = []
for item in t:
    if item not in result_ls:
        result_ls.append(item)
t = tuple(result_ls)
print(t)

Output:

(1, 2, 3, 4)

We get the same result as above. The resulting tuple does not have any duplicates.

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