On Dec 14, 2007 10:54 AM, nirvana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >
This sounds like homework. Google for run length encoding for algorithms, or check your textbook. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list