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The Character Encoder
A easy Python interview practice problem on DataDriven. Write and execute real python code with instant grading.
- Domain
- Python
- Difficulty
- easy
- Seniority
- junior, mid
Problem
The compression team is benchmarking a simple encoding scheme on raw text and needs a quick prototype to test against their C++ implementation. Given a string, compress it so that consecutive runs of the same character are replaced by the character followed by the run length.
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