443. String Compression - Day 2/31 Leetcode March Challenge

Larry solves and analyzes this Leetcode problem as both an interviewer and an interviewee. This is a live recording of a real engineer solving a problem live - no cuts or edits!
Problem: leetcode.com/problems/string-...
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[@Algorithmist]

Did you compress okay?

[@Gnarz1234]

Thanks for the solution!

[@seregaant68]

Good works, man of God.

[@am_rxd]

man you do it very like a player of the gnme for a long time something new people like me had hard time to understand this

[@ThePriyeshpandey]

You look like Australian Batsman David Warner

[@Algorithmist]

Haha, I don't think so but if he's rich maybe!

[@balajij4923]

@@Algorithmist he is rich as hell

[@saiKiran-ps8ff]

import json
class Solution:
def compress(self, chars: List[str]) -> List[str]:
l = len(chars)
res = chars[0]
temp = chars[0]
c = 1
for i in chars[1:]:
if i == temp:
c += 1
else:
if c > 1:
res += str(c)
c = 1
temp = i
res += i
if c > 1:
res += str(c)
mod_res = list(res)
mod1_res = json.dumps(mod_res)
return len(mod1_res)-1
what is wrong with my leetcode 443 solution... I have a problem in returning

[@Algorithmist]

try the discord