List of all unique characters in a string?

Question

I want to append characters to a string, but want to make sure all the letters in the final list are unique.

Example: \"aaabcabccd\" →

Answer 1

I have an idea. Why not use the ascii_lowercase constant?

For example, running the following code:

# string module, contains constant ascii_lowercase which is all the lowercase
# letters of the English alphabet
import string
# Example value of s, a string
s = 'aaabcabccd'
# Result variable to store the resulting string
result = ''
# Goes through each letter in the alphabet and checks how many times it appears.
# If a letter appears at least oce, then it is added to the result variable
for letter in string.ascii_letters:
    if s.count(letter) >= 1:
        result+=letter

# Optional three lines to convert result variable to a list for sorting
# and then back to a string
result = list(result)
result.sort()
result = ''.join(result)

print(result)

Will print 'abcd'

There you go, all duplicates removed and optionally sorted