In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I make a regular expression which will match the same character
> repeated one or more times, instead of matching repetitions of any
> (possibly non-same) characters like ".+" does? In other words, I want a
> pattern like this:
>
> >>> re.findall(".+", "foo") # not what I want
> ['foo']
> >>> re.findall("something", "foo") # what I want
> ['f', 'oo']
How's this?
>>> [x[0] for x in re.findall(r'((.)\2*)', 'abbcccddddcccbba')]
['a', 'bb', 'ccc', 'dddd', 'ccc', 'bb', 'a']
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