Compress a string

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

inhahe wrote:

> 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

Please test before posting.

>>> compress_str("AAAABBBBCCCCC")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 5, in compress_str
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'append'

Regards,


Björn

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