How to get Unique Characters in a String in Python?
Python - Unique Character in a String
To get unique characters in a given String in Python, pass the string to set() method. Since, String is an iterable of characters, set() method creates a Set of characters. And since Set holds only unique items, set() returns unique characters present in the given string.
Program
In the following program, we read a string from user using input() function, and then find the unique characters in this string.
Python Program
x = input()
unique_characters = set(x)
print(unique_characters)
Output #1
banana
{'n', 'a', 'b'}
Output #2
aaaabaaacccccabbbbddeeeee
{'c', 'a', 'e', 'b', 'd'}
References
Summary
In this Python Tutorial, we learned how to find unique characters present in a given string.