Merge pull request #1692 from keflavich/vizier_duplicate_keys_fix

Vizier: catalog with specific columns request
astropy · Apr 16, 2020 · 52b490c · 52b490c
2 parents 815d2e5 + 222da94
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diff --git a/astroquery/vizier/core.py b/astroquery/vizier/core.py
@@ -536,6 +536,9 @@ def _args_to_payload(self, *args, **kwargs):
 
         if columns is not None:
             columns = self.columns + columns
+            # filter columns to _unique_ columns, preserving order in python >3.6
+            # note that "set" does not preserve order, but dict.keys does
+            columns = list(dict.fromkeys(columns, ).keys())
 
         # special keywords need to be treated separately
         # keyword names that can mean 'all'