Run Length Encoding (RLE) is a compression technique where values repeated in sequence are counted and stored as
the value and its count. We will consider a simple version of RLE that will be applied to strings. Given a string, this
version of RLE encoding will produce a new string where any characters repeated in sequence are represented by that
character and its count. Characters that are not repeated in sequence remain unchanged. Therefore, the string "Baaaad"
would be encoded as "Ba4d". Similarly, the string "Nooo" would be encoded as "No3".
Complete the run_length_encoding() function that takes a single string parameter text. The function returns
the resulting RLE encoded string using the guidelines discussed previously. You can assume that text will only contain
alphabetical characters and have a length of at least 1. Some examples of the function being called are shown below.
For example:
Test
Result
text = "mississippi"
encoded_text = run_length_encoding(text)
print(text, "--->", encoded_text)
mississippi ---> mis2is2ip2i
text = "DdAAABBBBBccccc"
encoded_text = run_length_encoding(text)
print(text, "--->", encoded_text)
DdAAABBBBBccccc ---> DdA3B5c5
