Run-length encode in Python
Python interview exercise on Strings, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example, or cold in Interview mode with the example hidden; the tests run the moment you do.
Write compress(s) that run-length encodes s: each run becomes the character followed by its length, and the length is left out when it is 1.
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