Python: Best Way to remove duplicate character from string

How about this:

oldstring = 'SSSYYYNNNOOOOOPPPSSSIIISSS'
newstring = oldstring[0]
for char in oldstring[1:]:
    if char != newstring[-1]:
        newstring += char

This is a solution without importing itertools:

foo = "SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS"
''.join([foo[i] for i in range(len(foo)-1) if foo[i+1]!= foo[i]]+[foo[-1]])

Out[1]: 'SYNOPSIS'

But it is slower than the others method!

Using itertools.groupby:

>>> foo = "SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS"
>>> import itertools
>>> ''.join(ch for ch, _ in itertools.groupby(foo))
'SYNOPSIS'

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