How to use re to find consecutive, repeated chars

Question

I want to find all consecutive, repeated character blocks in a string. For example, consider the following:

s = r\'http://www.google.com/search=ooo-jjj\'
         


        

Answer 1

The following code should solve your problem:

s="abc def aaa bbb ccc def hhh"

for match in re.finditer(r"(\w)\1\1", s):
    print s[match.start():match.end()]