im trying to do data cleaning from instagram using python.
i need to remove those duplicate letters, but on (a,g) only remove them until there are 2 duplicate letters (aa,gg)
so it looks like this
input : mengganti, maaf, ppuuutttiiiihhh, mmmmeeeeerrrraaaah, maaagggz
output desired : mengganti, maaf, putih, meraah, maaggz
what im currently doing with regex is like this:
re.compile(r'(.)\1{1,}', re.IGNORECASE).sub(r'\1',kalimat)
input : mengganti, maaf, ppuuutttiiiihhh, mmmmeeeeerrrraaaah, maaagggz
currrent output : menganti, maf, putih, merah,magz
NB: it doesnt have to use regex