[Tutor] Remove duplicate values from dictionary without removing key

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/01/2021 13:25, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:

> OK, Lets take it one bit at a time.

To summarize and make it easier to use in your existing code I;ll turn
it into a function:

def remove_duplicate_values(dict_list):
    seen = {}
    for key in dict_list[0].keys():
        seen[key] = []

    for dic in dict_list:
        for field,value in dic.items():
            if value in seen[field]:
               dic[field] = ""
            else: seen[field].append(value)
    return dict_list

Call it with:

items = remove_duplicate_values(items)


That function should work for any list of similar dictionaries.
But again untested!

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