How to remove adjacent duplicate elements in a list using list comprehensions? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Using pairwise from the itertools recipes (with zip_longest) gives you an easy way of checking the next element:

import itertools as it

def pairwise(iterable):
    a, b = it.tee(iterable)
    next(b, None)
    return it.zip_longest(a, b, fillvalue=object())   # izip_longest for Py2

>>> xs = [1,2,2,3]
>>> [x for x, y in pairwise(xs) if x != y]
[1, 2, 3]
>>> xs = [1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,5,6,6]
>>> [x for x, y in pairwise(xs) if x != y]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]