[PATCH] selftests: tc-testing: preserve list order when removing duplicates

From: mr . navi8680

Date: Sun Feb 22 2026 - 04:56:46 EST


From: Naveen Anandhan <mr.navi8680@xxxxxxxxx>

Using set() removes duplicates but breaks ordering.
Test output should be deterministic, so replace with dict.fromkeys().

Signed-off-by: Naveen Anandhan <mr.navi8680@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc_helper.py | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc_helper.py b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc_helper.py
index 0440d252c4c5..e06f03c0fb5d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc_helper.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/tc-testing/tdc_helper.py
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ def get_categorized_testlist(alltests, ucat):


def get_unique_item(lst):
- """ For a list, return a list of the unique items in the list. """
+ """Return unique items while preserving original order."""
if len(lst) > 1:
- return list(set(lst))
+ return list(dict.fromkeys(lst))
else:
return lst

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2.43.0