Grouping

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The itertools groupby function divides a sequence into contiguous subsequences where the elements in each subsequence share something in common.

Grouping by equality

When used with a single parameter, groupbyitertools.groupby finds groups of repeated elements.The reason this function is named “groupby” instead of “group” won’t become clear until we discuss the optional key parameter.

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