21Run-Length Encoding

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Run-length encoding replaces each run of the same character with the character followed by how many times it repeats.

Write encode(text) so that encode("aaabcc") returns "a3b1c2".

Examples

Example 1

>>> encode('aaabcc')
'a3b1c2'

Example 2

>>> encode('abc')
'a1b1c1'

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solution.py

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