Compress a string

[Salvatore DI DI0]

Try this

t = set("aaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbccccccccc")
list(t)

Regards

Salvatore


"Matt Porter" <mabbikeel at gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 
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> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to compress a string.
> E.g:
>  "AAAABBBC" -> "ABC"
>
> The code I have so far feels like it could be made clearer and more 
> succinct, but a solution is currently escaping me.
>
>
> def compress_str(str):
>     new_str = ""
>     for i, c in enumerate(str):
>         try:
>             if c != str[i+1]:
>                 new_str += c
>         except IndexError:
>             new_str += c
>     return new_str
>
>
> Cheers
> Matt
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