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Python program to count pairs for consecutive elements
Suppose we have a numeric string s contains few digits. The digits may occur multiple times. We have to return some pairs (digit, count) represents which digit has occurred consecutively how many times in s. To solve this problem we can use the groupby() function that comes under itertools library. This will return one iterator object inside that each item will be at first place and another groupby objects at the second place. We have to count number of groupby objects for each pair.
So, if the input is like s = "11522226551", then the output will be [(1, 2), (5, 1), (2, 4), (6, 1), (5, 2), (1, 1)] because at the beginning 1 is present twice, then single 5 then four 2s and so on.
To solve this, we will follow these steps −
- it := call groupby function for s
- ret := a new list
- for each pair (digit, gp) in it, do
- insert (digit and length of the list of gp) into ret
- return ret
Example
Let us see the following implementation to get better understanding
from itertools import groupby def solve(s): it = groupby(s) ret = [] for digit, gp in it: ret.append((int(digit), len(list(gp)))) return ret s = "11522226551" print(solve(s))
Input
"11522226551"
Output
[(1, 2), (5, 1), (2, 4), (6, 1), (5, 2), (1, 1)]
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