consecutive_find

visualife.utils.consecutive_find(string, shortest_accepted=2, allowed_chars=[])

Detects ranges of identical characters in a given string.

For example:

consecutive_find("AAABBCCCAAA")

should return:

[[0, 2, 'A'], [3, 4, 'B'], [5, 7, 'C'], [8, 10, 'A']]

Parameters:

• string – (string) input string
• shortest_accepted – (int) shortest substring accepted
• allowed_chars – (list[char]) list of allowed characters: the returned list will hold a given block if and only if

its character is on the list; when the list is empty, all characters are allowed :return: a list of segments defining substrings of identical characters