Splitting list into smaller lists of equal values

Question

I am looking to transform a list into smaller lists of equal values. An example I have is:

[\"a\", \"a\", \"a\", \"b\", \"b\", \"c\", \"c\", \"c\", \"c\"] 
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Answer 1

You could use itertools.groupby to solve the problem:

>>> from itertools import groupby
>>> [list(grp) for k, grp in groupby(["a", "a", "a", "b", "b", "c", "c", "c", "c"])]
[['a', 'a', 'a'], ['b', 'b'], ['c', 'c', 'c', 'c']]

It only groups consecutive equal elements but that seems enough in your case.