permutations with unique values

Question

itertools.permutations generates where its elements are treated as unique based on their position, not on their value. So basically I want to avoid duplicates like this:

Answer 1

This is my solution with 10 lines:

class Solution(object):
    def permute_unique(self, nums):
        perms = [[]]
        for n in nums:
            new_perm = []
            for perm in perms:
                for i in range(len(perm) + 1):
                    new_perm.append(perm[:i] + [n] + perm[i:])
                    # handle duplication
                    if i < len(perm) and perm[i] == n: break
            perms = new_perm
        return perms


if __name__ == '__main__':
    s = Solution()
    print s.permute_unique([1, 1, 1])
    print s.permute_unique([1, 2, 1])
    print s.permute_unique([1, 2, 3])

--- Result ----

[[1, 1, 1]]
[[1, 2, 1], [2, 1, 1], [1, 1, 2]]
[[3, 2, 1], [2, 3, 1], [2, 1, 3], [3, 1, 2], [1, 3, 2], [1, 2, 3]]