Compress a string

[inhahe]

i see lots of neat one-liner solutions but just for the sake of argument:

def compress_str(str):
     new_str = ""
     lc = ""
     for c in str:
        if c != lc: new_str.append(c)
     return new_str


"Matt Porter" <mabbikeel at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1315.1211133997.12834.python-list at python.org...
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to compress a string.
> E.g:
>  "AAAABBBC" -> "ABC"
>
> The code I have so far feels like it could be made clearer and more 
> succinct, but a solution is currently escaping me.
>
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> Cheers
> Matt
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