how can I checking only a spefic dict key for unique values?

Question

I am trying to have the same behaviour, but I want to check if url dict contains unique values instead of checking the complete dict.

def unique(data):
    result = {}
    for key, value in data.items():
        new_list = []
        for item in value:
            if item not in new_list:
                new_list.append(item)
        result[key] = new_list
        return result



games = { 
   "games":[ 
      { 
         "city":"Santa Monica, CA",
         "company":"rockstar",
         "date":{ 
            "display":"24 days ago",
            "timestamp":1570721082
         },
         "game":"akakkak",
         "challenge":"leel",
         "url":"https://www.game.com/12757a575/aaashs/2222"
      },{ 
         "city":"Santa Monica, CA",
         "company":"rockstar",
         "date":{ 
            "display":"24 days ago",
            "timestamp":1570721082
         },
         "game":"akak2kak",
         "challenge":"leel",
         "url":"https://www.game.com/12757a575/aaashs/2222"
      }
   ]
}

print(unique(games))

I expect the output of "url":"https://www.game.com/12757a575/aaashs/2222" without having the same value in the same key

See the answers here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17218139/print-all-unique-values-in-a-python-dictionary — Matthew E. Miller, Nov 04 '19 at 01:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '19 at 01:09

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How about creating a seprate list of urls to keep track of each unique url like so:

def unique(data):
    result = {}
    for key, value in data.items():
        new_list = []
        url_list = []
        for item in value:
            if item['url'] not in url_list:
                new_list.append(item)
                url_list.append(item['url'])
        result[key] = new_list
        return result

answered Nov 04 '19 at 01:09

Kind Stranger

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I thought it will keep the same behaviour checking all content of dict, but I only want to check url key values – Aron Imperial Nov 04 '19 at 01:13

how can I checking only a spefic dict key for unique values?

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