Matt Porter wrote:
> I'm trying to compress a string.
> E.g:
> "AAAABBBC" -> "ABC"
Two more:
>>> from itertools import groupby
>>> "".join(k for k, g in groupby("aaaaaabbbbbbbbbbcccccc"))
'abc'
>>> import re
>>> re.compile(r"(.)\1*").sub(r"\1", "aaaaaaabbbbcccccccc")
'abc'
Peter