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First solution in Uncategorized category for Long Repeat by Alex_Agarkov
from re import finditer
def long_repeat(line):
"""
length the longest substring that consists of the same char
"""
if len(line) == 0:
return 0
substrings = [m.group(0) for m in finditer(r"(\w)\1*", line)]
substrings_lens = [len(item) for item in substrings]
return max(substrings_lens)
if __name__ == '__main__':
#These "asserts" using only for self-checking and not necessary for auto-testing
assert long_repeat('sdsffffse') == 4, "First"
assert long_repeat('ddvvrwwwrggg') == 3, "Second"
print('"Run" is good. How is "Check"?')
Oct. 11, 2017