Problem Statement A long stretch of beach is represented by a string of two characters: 0 - free, 1 - occupied. Due to recent restrictions, a new person cannot take a place next to another on the beach. In other words, there must be one free place between two people lounging on the beach. Define and implement a function sun_loungers to compute how many new people (at most) can lounge on a given beach. You may assume that no current loungers will move. Examples sun_loungers("10001") ➞ 1 # Can take place in the middle. sun_loungers("00101") ➞ 1 # Can take place on the left. sun_loungers("0") ➞ 1 # Can take one place. sun_loungers("000") ➞ 2 # Can take places on the left and on the right. Sample Input 1 "00010000" Sample Output 1 3
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Problem Statement
A long stretch of beach is represented by a string of two characters: 0 - free, 1 - occupied. Due to recent restrictions, a new person cannot take a place next to another on the beach. In other words, there must be one free place between two people lounging on the beach. Define and implement a function sun_loungers to compute how many new people (at most) can lounge on a given beach. You may assume that no current loungers will move.
Examples
sun_loungers("10001") ➞ 1 # Can take place in the middle. sun_loungers("00101") ➞ 1 # Can take place on the left. sun_loungers("0") ➞ 1 # Can take one place. sun_loungers("000") ➞ 2 # Can take places on the left and on the right.
Sample Input 1
"00010000"
Sample Output 1
3
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