On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:54:58 -0800, nirvana wrote: > I need to count the number of continous character occurances(more than > 1) in a file, and replace it with a compressed version, like below > XYZAAAAAAAADEFAAcdAA --> XYZ8ADEF2Acd2A
Great. Then go ahead an implement it. :-)
`itertools.groupby()` might be handy.
And you have to think about digits in the source if that's allowed.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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