Add remove duplicates (#905)

* Initial commit for remove duplicates

* Made changes to readme and added test case

README.md

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ If you want to uninstall algorithms, it is as simple as:
     - [merge_intervals](algorithms/arrays/merge_intervals.py)
     - [missing_ranges](algorithms/arrays/missing_ranges.py)
     - [plus_one](algorithms/arrays/plus_one.py)
+    - [remove_duplicates](algorithms/arrays/remove_duplicates.py)
     - [rotate](algorithms/arrays/rotate.py)
     - [summarize_ranges](algorithms/arrays/summarize_ranges.py)
     - [three_sum](algorithms/arrays/three_sum.py)

algorithms/arrays/__init__.py

@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
 from .two_sum import *
 from .limit import *
 from .n_sum import *
+from .remove_duplicates import *

algorithms/arrays/remove_duplicates.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+"""
+This algorithm removes any duplicates from an array and returns a new array with those duplicates
+removed.
+
+For example:
+
+Input: [1, 1 ,1 ,2 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,4 ,"hey", "hey", "hello", True, True]
+Output: [1, 2, 3, 4, 'hey', 'hello']
+"""
+
+def remove_duplicates(array):
+    new_array = []
+
+    for item in array:
+        if item not in new_array:
+            new_array.append(item)
+
+    return new_array

tests/test_array.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     missing_ranges,
     move_zeros,
     plus_one_v1, plus_one_v2, plus_one_v3,
+    remove_duplicates
     rotate_v1, rotate_v2, rotate_v3,
     summarize_ranges,
     three_sum,
@@ -298,6 +299,15 @@ def test_plus_one_v3(self):
         self.assertListEqual(plus_one_v3([9, 9, 9, 9]),
                              [1, 0, 0, 0, 0])
 
+class TestRemoveDuplicate(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_remove_duplicates(self):
+        self.assertListEqual(remove_duplicates([1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,6,7,7,7,8,8,9,10,10]))
+        self.assertListEqual(remove_duplicates(["hey", "hello", "hello", "car", "house", "house"]))
+        self.assertListEqual(remove_duplicates([True, True, False, True, False, None, None]))
+        self.assertListEqual(remove_duplicates([1,1,"hello", "hello", True, False, False]))
+        self.assertListEqual(remove_duplicates([1, "hello", True, False]))
+
 
 class TestRotateArray(unittest.TestCase):