Truncate Repeats

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Solution

Truncate Repeats: Solution

Write a function that takes in a string and returns a string where any repeating characters have been truncated to one character. For example:

>>> truncate('aaaaabbbbbcccaaaa')
'abca'

>>> truncate('hi there')
'hi there'

>>> truncate('hi   !!! wooow')
'hi ! wow'

We’ve provided a function stub and tests in truncate-repeats.py.