Walter Brunswick wrote: > Is there any way to [efficiently] iterate through a sequence of characters to > find N [or more] consecutive equivalent characters? > > So, for example, the string "taaypiqee88adbbba" would return 1 if the number > (of consequtive characters) supplied in the parameters > of the function call was 2 or 3, because "a", "e", 8, and "b" is repeated 2 > or 3 times.
Why would it return 1? Is that instead of True, or does it represent a count of items, or the position of something in the list, or what? -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
