>>> a = np.array([1, 2, 6, 4, 2, 3, 2])
>>> values, counts = np.unique(a, return_counts=True)
>>> values
array([1, 2, 3, 4, 6])
>>> counts
array([1, 3, 1, 1, 1])
>>> np.repeat(values, counts)
array([1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6]) # original order not preserved