I thought of getting back into competitive programming again and started practicing my python coding-chops on Codewars.

Here's a neat trick on how to extract unique characters from a string:

from collections import OrderedDict

word = "HelloWorld"
uniq = ''.join(OrderedDict.fromkeys(word).keys())

print(uniq) # prints HeloWrd

Using OrderedDict allows you to preserve the order in which the keys are inserted as a normal dict doesn't track the order.

Hope you found this useful!