Python solve problem with string operation
John Gordon
gordon at panix.com
Thu Jan 16 17:30:27 EST 2014
In <mailman.5607.1389911083.18130.python-list at python.org> Nac Temha <naccttemha at gmail.com> writes:
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> Hi everyone,
> I want to do operation with chars in the given string. Actually I want to
> grouping the same chars.
> For example;
> input : "344111133311222223377"
> operation-> (3)(44)(1111)(333)(11)(22222)(33)(77)
> output: "34131237"
input = "344111133311222223377"
output = []
previous_ch = None
for ch in input:
if ch != previous_ch:
output.append(ch)
previous_ch = ch
print ''.join(output)
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