String Compression Done

Author: Harshadjoshi01

Arrays_And_Strings/String_Compression.py

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+'''
+String Compression: Implement a method to perform basic string compression using the counts
+of repeated characters. For example, the string aabcccccaaa would become a2blc5a3, If the
+"compressed" string would not become smaller than the original string, your method should return
+the original string. You can assume the string has only uppercase and lowercase letters (a - z).
+Hints: #92, if 110
+
+'''
+
+from tokenize import String
+
+
+def Str_compress(s):
+    comp_str = ""
+    count_char = 1
+    for i in range(len(s)):               #if i is greater than zero
+        if (i > 0 and s[i] == s[i-1]):
+            count_char += 1
+        elif(i > 0 and s[i] != s[i-1]):
+            comp_str += s[i-1] + str(count_char)
+            count_char = 1
+
+    final_str = comp_str + s[-1] + str(count_char)         #handling last char of string
+    if (len(final_str) > len(s)):
+        return s
+    else: 
+        return final_str
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    s = input("Enter string >> ").strip()
+    answer = Str_compress(s)
+    print(answer)