Peter Otten wrote:

> To verify that the algorithm is correct now you could walk through
> increasingly more complex sample data, which may be possible in this case,
> but rarely ever for an entire script. Instead the common approach is to
> pick a few samples along with the expected outcomes, feed them to your
> function and verify that they give the expected output
> 
> def unique_values(items):
>    ...
>    return uniq
> 
> assert unique_values([42, 42]) == [42]
> assert unique_values([1, 2, 3, 2]) == [1, 2, 3]

Thanks for the tip and where I was failing to see

Togan

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