### Utilities to get overlap between strings def get_overlap_length(left: str, right: str): good_length, overlap = 0, "" for i in range(min(len(left), len(right))): if left[-i:] == right[:i]: good_length = i overlap = left[-i:] return good_length, overlap def get_overlap_list(strings): """ Returns a list of tuples of the form (overlap_length, overlap), one tuple for each pair of strings in the input list. """ overlaps = [] for i in range(len(strings) - 1): overlaps.append(get_overlap_length(strings[i], strings[i+1])) return overlaps def unoverlap_list(strings): """ Returns a list of tuples of the form (content, is_overlap), where is_overlap is a boolean indicating whether the content is an overlap or not. """ overlaps = get_overlap_list(strings) new_list = [] for index, string in enumerate(strings): # Add the last overlap when needed if index > 0 and len(overlaps[index-1][1]) > 0: new_list.append((overlaps[index-1][1], True)) # prune the string with left and right overlaps left_overlap_length, right_overlap_length = 0, 0 if index > 0: left_overlap_length = overlaps[index-1][0] if index < len(strings) - 1: right_overlap_length = overlaps[index][0] new_list.append((string[left_overlap_length:len(string)-right_overlap_length], False)) return new_list