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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def unique(self):
 """ Compute the ExtensionArray of unique values. Returns ------- uniques : ExtensionArray """

        from pandas import unique

        uniques = unique(self.astype(object))
        return self._from_sequence(uniques, dtype=self.dtype)