Remove multple occurance of a word with another from python list

Question

(This question already has an answer here): question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66061392/remove-multple-occurance-of-a-word-with-another-from-python-list

Answer 1

Use itertools.groupby

from itertools import groupby

[key for key, _ in groupby(my_list)]

['apple', 'boy', 'cat', 'apple', 'boy', 'cat', 'dog']