Nac Temha <nacctte...@gmail.com> writes: > 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" > > > > How can I do without list, regular expression. just using string operations. > Using an effective methods of python for this problem.
% cat a.py def f(s,n): if s[n+1] == s[n]: return s[:n]+s[n+1:], n return s, n+1 i = "344111133311222223377" n = 0 while n+1 != len(i): i, n = f(i, n) print i % python a.py 34131237 % -- your instructor is a mean person -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list