Given a string s and an array of integers cost where cost[i] is the cost of deleting the ith character in s.
Return the minimum cost of deletions such that there are no two identical letters next to each other.
Notice that you will delete the chosen characters at the same time, in other words, after deleting a character, the costs of deleting other characters will not change.
 
Example 1:
Input: s = "abaac", cost = [1,2,3,4,5]
Output: 3
Explanation: Delete the letter "a" with cost 3 to get "abac" (String without two identical letters next to each other).

Example 2:
Input: s = "abc", cost = [1,2,3]
Output: 0
Explanation: You don't need to delete any character because there are no identical letters next to each other.

Example 3:
Input: s = "aabaa", cost = [1,2,3,4,1]
Output: 2
Explanation: Delete the first and the last character, getting the string ("aba").

 
Constraints:

s.length == cost.length
1 <= s.length, cost.length <= 10^5
1 <= cost[i] <= 10^4
s contains only lowercase English letters.

```python

USER_FILENAME = "<user_code>"
import sys, json, builtins
import math, heapq, bisect, itertools, functools, collections, statistics, fractions, decimal, operator, array, random, re, string, os, pathlib
try:
    import resource as _res
except Exception:
    _res = None
from collections import Counter, defaultdict, deque, OrderedDict
from functools import lru_cache, reduce
from itertools import accumulate, permutations, combinations, product
from math import gcd, ceil, floor, sqrt
from decimal import Decimal
try:
    from typing import *
except Exception:
    pass
try:
    sys.setrecursionlimit(1_000_000)
except Exception:
    pass
try:
    import site as _site
    try:
        _sys_sites = _site.getsitepackages() if hasattr(_site, "getsitepackages") else []
        for _p in _sys_sites:
            if _p and _p not in sys.path:
                sys.path.append(_p)
    except Exception:
        pass
    try:
        _usp = _site.getusersitepackages()
        if isinstance(_usp, str):
            _usp = [_usp]
        for _p in _usp:
            if _p and _p not in sys.path:
                sys.path.append(_p)
    except Exception:
        pass
except Exception:
    pass

def _disabled_input(*args, **kwargs):
    raise RuntimeError("input() is disabled in callable mode")
builtins.input = _disabled_input

ns = {"__name__": "__judge__"}  # prevent if __name__ == "__main__" blocks
for _k, _v in list(globals().items()):
    if not _k.startswith("_"):
        ns[_k] = _v
_CODE = '\'\'\'\n1578. Minimum Deletion Cost to Avoid Repeating Letters.  Medium\n\nGiven a string items and an array of integers costs where costs[i]\nis the costs of deleting the character i in items.\n\nReturn the minimum costs of deletions such that there are\nno two identical letters next to each other.\n\nNotice that you will delete the chosen characters at the same time,\nin other words, after deleting a character, the costs of deleting\nother characters will not change.\n\nExample 1:\nInput: items = \\"abaac\\", costs = [1,2,3,4,5]\nOutput: 3\nExplanation: Delete the letter \\"a\\" with costs 3 to get \\"abac\\"\n             (String without two identical letters next to each other).\n\nExample 2:\nInput: items = \\"abc\\", costs = [1,2,3]\nOutput: 0\nExplanation: You don\'t need to delete any character because\n             there are no identical letters next to each other.\n\nExample 3:\nInput: items = \\"aabaa\\", costs = [1,2,3,4,1]\nOutput: 2\nExplanation: Delete the first and the last character,\n             getting the string (\\"aba\\").\n\nConstraints:\nitems.length == costs.length\n1 <= items.length, costs.length <= 10^5\n1 <= costs[i] <= 10^4\nitems contains only lowercase English letters.\n\nAccepted 3,761 / 7,000 submissions.\n\'\'\'\nclass Solution:\n    def minCost(self, items: str, costs: List[int]) -> int:\n        \'\'\'\n        Runtime: 1160 ms, faster than 50.00% of Python3 online submissions for Minimum Deletion Cost to Avoid Repeating Letters.\n        Memory Usage: 24.5 MB, less than 25.00% of Python3 online submissions for Minimum Deletion Cost to Avoid Repeating Letters.\n        \'\'\'\n        size = len(items)\n        if size < 2:\n            return 0\n            \n        result = 0\n        prv_item = items[0]\n        prv_cost = costs[0]\n        max_cost = tot_cost = prv_cost\n        run = False\n        for item, cost in zip(items[1:], costs[1:]):\n            if item == prv_item:\n                run = True\n                tot_cost += cost\n                max_cost = max(max_cost, cost)\n            else:\n                if run:\n                    run = False\n                    result += tot_cost - max_cost\n                tot_cost = max_cost = cost\n            prv_item = item\n\n        if run:\n            result += tot_cost - max_cost\n        return result'
_co = compile(_CODE, USER_FILENAME, "exec")
exec(_co, ns, ns)

_target = None
_fn_name = 'minCost'
if _fn_name:
    if "Solution" in ns:
        try:
            _obj = ns["Solution"]()
            if hasattr(_obj, _fn_name):
                _target = getattr(_obj, _fn_name)
        except Exception:
            _target = None
    if _target is None and _fn_name in ns and callable(ns[_fn_name]):
        _target = ns[_fn_name]
# Fallback: if there's exactly one user-defined function, use it
if _target is None:
    _cands = [v for k, v in ns.items() if callable(v) and getattr(v, "__module__", "") in ("__judge__", "__main__")]
    _user_funcs = [c for c in _cands if getattr(c, "__name__", "").startswith("_") is False]
    if len(_user_funcs) == 1:
        _target = _user_funcs[0]
if _target is None:
    raise RuntimeError(f"Could not resolve callable '{_fn_name}'")

_raw = sys.stdin.read().strip()
if _raw:
    _parsed = json.loads(_raw)
    if isinstance(_parsed, dict):
        _kwargs = _parsed.get("kwargs", {})
        _args = _parsed.get("args", [])
    else:
        _args, _kwargs = _parsed, {}
else:
    _args, _kwargs = [], {}
if not isinstance(_args, (list, tuple)):
    _args = [_args]
_res = _target(*_args, **_kwargs)
try:
    sys.stdout.write(repr(_res) + "\n")
except Exception:
    pass

```

Measured memory_bytes: 5720