Distance between consecutive occurrences of a character

Question

I need to write a program that will determine the length of the spaces between successive occurrences of a given character. If the occurrences are adjacent, the space between them is considered to be 1.

I can only calculate between two signs

text = input ('enter text')
find = input ('enter a search character')
x = text.find(find)

y = text.rfind(find)
   
dist = text.rfind(find) - text.find(find)
print(dist)

str.find() takes a start index argument also. You can make use of that. https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.find — lllrnr101, Apr 09 '21 at 13:18
The example result gives the distance between the first two characters, but what about the next characters? — Maria, Apr 09 '21 at 13:23
It actually gives the distance between the first and last instances of the search character. — TigerhawkT3, Apr 09 '21 at 13:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-10T07:13:57.077

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This code will output the distances into a list.

text = "Maybe it's in the gutter, where I left my lover. What an expensive fate."
find = input('Enter a search character')

spaces_list = [len(x) + 1 for x in text.split(find)[1:-1]]
print(spaces_list)

Output

>>> Enter a search character
>>> t

>>> [7, 6, 1, 16, 15, 17]

edited Apr 10 '21 at 07:13

answered Apr 09 '21 at 13:30

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Thank you, that's what I meant – Maria Apr 09 '21 at 13:53

Distance between consecutive occurrences of a character

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