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Write a function which will take one string argument containing characters between a-z, and should remove all repeated characters (dupliactaes) in the string.
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remove_duplicates.py
def remove_duplicates(string):
unique = ''.join(sorted(set(string)))
removed = len(string) - len(unique)
return unique, removed
print(remove_duplicates('accccount'))
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