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As it has already been pointed out, the complete solution in Python 3 could be:
import re m = re.search(r'([a-zA-Z0-9])\1+', input().strip()) print(m.group(1) if m else -1)
My solution has an even shorter regex, but I wrote it only for fun and I'd suggest not to use it to solve such a simple problem:
(\w(?!_))\1+
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As it has already been pointed out, the complete solution in Python 3 could be:
My solution has an even shorter regex, but I wrote it only for fun and I'd suggest not to use it to solve such a simple problem: