[Tutor] Help on this assignment

[Alan Gauld]

On 09/02/17 08:10, Sasiliyu Adetunji wrote:

> Write a function called remove_duplicates which will take one argument
> called string. This string input will only have characters between a-z.
> 
> The function should remove all repeated characters in the string and return
> a tuple with two values:
> 
> A new string with only unique, sorted characters.
> 
> The total number of duplicates dropp

You could use set() to remove the duplicates.
Then compare the lengths of the set with the length
of the original to determine how many letters were
dropped.


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