Find and replace duplicates in Array, but replace each nth instance with a different string

Question

I have an array below which consists of repeated strings. I want to find and replace those strings, but each time a match is made I want to change the value of the replace strin

Answer 1

One way would be to convert your array into a dictionary like that:

SampleDict = {}
for key in SampleArray:
    if key in SampleDict:
        SampleDict[key][0] = True # means: duplicates
        SampleDict[key][1] += 1 
    else:
        SampleDict[key] = [False, 1] # means: no duplicates

Now you can easily convert that dict back to an array. However if the order in SampleArray is important, then you can do it like that:

for i in range(len(SampleArray)):
    key = SampleArray[i]
    counter = SampleDict[key]
    if index[0]:
        SampleArray[i] = key + str(counter[1])
    counter[1] -= 1

This will give you the reversed order however, i.e.

SampleArray = ['champ', 'king2', 'king1', 'mak3', 'mak2', 'mak1']

But I'm sure you'll be able to tweak it to your needs.