This Little Python Exercise Taught Me a Lot

If you want to be an excellent coder, don’t settle for the first solution that comes to your mind

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Solving programming challenges is a great way to enhance your skills and learn new tools, even in a language you already know. That’s why I found this little problem attractive:

Given a string s, containing repeated letters, such as ‘hhhhhhhaaaaaaaabbbbbbbvvvvvaaaahhhh’, output a summary list, showing the starting location and character for each sequence of …

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