goal-tools/goal_tools/utils.py

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# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
# a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.
import logging
LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def unique(iterator):
"""Iterator that only returns unique values from its input.
A worst-case version of this ends up storing all of the data from
the iterator in memory to check for unique values.
The values from the iterator must be hashable.
:param iterator: iterable of hashable data to consume
:returns: generator
"""
seen = set()
for i in iterator:
if i in seen:
LOG.debug('ignoring duplicate %r', i)
continue
yield i
seen.add(i)