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Suppose I have the following series in pandas:

>>>p
0     0.0
1     0.0
2     0.0
3     0.3
4     0.3
5     0.3
6     0.3
7     0.3
8     1.0
9     1.0
10    1.0
11    0.2
12    0.2
13    0.3
14    0.3
15    0.3

I need to identify each sequence of consecutive duplicates - its first and last index. Using the above example, I need to identify the first sequence of 0.3 (from index 3 to 7) independently from the last sequence of 0.3 (from index 13 to 15).

Using Series.duplicated is insufficient because:

*using keep='first' marks all first instances of duplicates False, but will leave index 13 as True because it is not the first appearance of 0.3.

*Same goes for keep='last'

*keep=False just marks all of the entries as True.

Thank you!

I believe need trick with compare shifted values for not equal by ne with cumsum and last drop_duplicates:

s = df['a'].ne(df['a'].shift()).cumsum()
a = s.drop_duplicates().index
b = s.drop_duplicates(keep='last').indexdf = pd.DataFrame({'first':a, 'last':b})
print (df)first  last
0      0     2
1      3     7
2      8    10
3     11    12
4     13    15

If want also duplicated value to new column a bit change solution with duplicated:

s = df['a'].ne(df['a'].shift()).cumsum()
a = df.loc[~s.duplicated(), 'a']
b = s.drop_duplicates(keep='last')df = pd.DataFrame({'first':a.index, 'last':b.index, 'val':a})
print (df)first  last  val
0       0     2  0.0
3       3     7  0.3
8       8    10  1.0
11     11    12  0.2
13     13    15  0.3

If need new column:

df['count'] = df['a'].ne(df['a'].shift()).cumsum()
print (df)a  count
0   0.0      1
1   0.0      1
2   0.0      1
3   0.3      2
4   0.3      2
5   0.3      2
6   0.3      2
7   0.3      2
8   1.0      3
9   1.0      3
10  1.0      3
11  0.2      4
12  0.2      4
13  0.3      5
14  0.3      5
15  0.3      5