count consecutive elements

Thu Jan 14 10:47:41 EST 2021

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 6:20 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:59 PM Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com>
> wrote:
>>> On 2021年01月13日 21:20, Bischoop wrote:
>> > I want to to display a number or an alphabet which appears mostly
>> > consecutive in a given string or numbers or both
>> > Examples
>> > s= ' aabskaaabadcccc'
>> > output: c
>> > # c appears 4 consecutive times
>> > 8bbakebaoa
>> > output: b
>> > #b appears 2 consecutive times
>>>> I'm kind of partial to:
>> import collections
> import typing
>>> def get_longest(string: str) -> typing.Tuple[int, str]:
>I just realized this has a kinda big bug. Don't use!